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Countdown

Title
Countdown (2024)
Countdown
Year
2024
Catalog
Genre
IMDB
Rating
6.1 from 10 with total 10 votes
Premiere
2004-12-09
Runtime
105 minutes
Description
Terror from within by Yury Felshtinsky and Alexander Litvinenko, representing them as parts of the plan masterminded and sponsored by exiled tycoon Pokrovsky (obvious hint at Boris Berezovsky in real life) and aimed to discredit Russian security services. As this plan has failed, Pokrovsky assisted by some terrorists organizes a hostage taking in a Moscow circus (very similar to Moscow theater hostage crisis in real life) in order to return to Russia, acting as a saver of the hostages during negotiations. However, he fails to do so. The movie also depicts the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia as a place where an important Islamic militant hides, which was a common allegation by Russian authorities in real life around that time, and depicts destruction of a base of terrorists and allies of Pokrovsky in Qatar which might hint at the assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. Overall, the movie was widely considered propaganda.
Cast

Aleksey Makarov character Major Aleksei Smolin

Louise Lombard character Catherine Stone

Vyacheslav Razbegaev character Umar Tamiev

Egor Pazenko character Saulyus Boykis

Yuriy Tsurilo character Gen. Sergei Karpov

Viktor Verzhbitskiy character Pokrovskiy

Ramil Sabitov character Khasan

Mariya Golubkina character Tatyana

Vladislav Abashin character journalist in press center

Andrey Lebedev character hostage