Paragraf 78 - Film vtoroy (2007)

Director:

Mikhail Khleborodov

Writers:

Mikhail Khleborodov (screenplay)
Ivan Okhlobystin (novel)

Release Date:

23 March 2007 (Russia)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Sequel | Based On Novel | Number In Title

Cast

Yuriy Kutsenko	...	Gudvin (as Gosha Kutsenko)
Vladimir Vdovichenkov	...	Skif
Anastasiya Slanevskaya	...	Lisa
Anatoliy Belyy	...	Spam
Stanislav Duzhnikov	...	Lyuba
Grigoriy Siyatvinda	...	Festival
Aziz Beyshenaliev	...	Pay
Yusup Bakhshiev	...	Doktor
Sergey Shakurov	...	Chlen voennogo tribunala
Viktor Verzhbitskiy	...	Chlen voennogo tribunala
Mariya Kiselyova	...	Chlen voennogo tribunala
Keysi	...	Sobaka Keysi

Also Known As:

Параграф 78. Фильм второй (Russia)
Paragraph 78. Film Two (International: English title) (informal English title)
Paragrahv 78. Punkt 2 (Estonia) [et]

Runtime:

Russia:90 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Kaliningrad, Russia

Company:

MB Productions

Trivia:

Since Paragraf 78 (2007) received mostly negative reviews, producers used different promotional tactics for the second part. TV and outdoors advertising was scaled down drastically. The film was not screened for critics, instead a series of "secret" previews for selected bloggers and friendly journalists were held in an attempt to create a favorable word-of-mouth.

Movie Connections:

Follows Paragraf 78 (2007)

This is only half (the second half of) a movie

This film is part two of a two-part movie. That's right, a two-part movie: it is not a sequel. So I would ordinarily advise that one should watch the first half before watching this. However, on this occasion I would rather say that it's better to watch neither. Ostensibly, perhaps, the movie was split in two because there was a very long story to be told. Each 'half', however is only ninety minutes long, so a 'whole' movie would be three hours. That's long, but there have been plenty of longer movies made. What's more, there really isn't a great deal of a story told, rather it relies too much on drawn out melodrama and repeated fight (gun and fist) scenes which seem to be there in profusion because the writer has run out of ideas, so there's really no justification for splitting the film in two at all. Trimmed down to about eighty to ninety minutes overall it might be worth watching, but as it is, watching it is an endurance.