Newsmakers (2009)
Synopsis
A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.
Release Date: 2009-05-07
Runtime: 107 minutes
Director: Anders Banke
Budget: $4,000,000 USD
Top Cast
- Andrey Merzlikin as Smirnov
- Evgeny Tsyganov as Herman
- Masha Mashkova as Katya
- Sergey Garmash as Killer
- Maksim Konovalov as Kley
- Aleksey Frandetti as Orda
- Pavel Klimov as Kolyan
- Sergey Vesnin as Kon
- Artyom Semakin as Valery
- Viktor Chepelov as Sanya
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