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The Outskirts

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Russian farmer Filipp Safronov (Yuri Dubrovin) is dispossessed of his land by a shadowy group of government officials who hand it over to a powerful oil company. So Filipp rounds up some of his angriest and most violent friends and hits the road, planning to figure out exactly who is in control and then exact revenge. They track down corrupt bureaucrats one by one and torture them until they reveal who gave them their orders, following the trail of rapacious capitalism all the way to Moscow.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews This set in modern Russia tale plays as a disturbing and at the same time droll comical look at a country in the middle of an unsettling transformation. Rated: B Mar 22, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Russian farmer Filipp Safronov (Yuri Dubrovin) is dispossessed of his land by a shadowy group of government officials who hand it over to a powerful oil company. So Filipp rounds up some of his angriest and most violent friends and hits the road, planning to figure out exactly who is in control and then exact revenge. They track down corrupt bureaucrats one by one and torture them until they reveal who gave them their orders, following the trail of rapacious capitalism all the way to Moscow.
Director
Pyotr Lutsik
Producer
Pyotr Lutsik
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Russian
Release Date (DVD)
Jul 13, 2004
Runtime
1h 35m