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The Major (2013)

Film · 2013 · 99 min · Action · Crime · Drama

On a cold winter’s day Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he’s driving too fast and runs down a boy on a passage walk, who dies. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal the crime. Sobolev decides to compromise with his conscience and calls on a colleague to help him out. But the case turns out to be messy and when Sobolev finally changes his mind and tries to make up for his deed, it’s already too late…

Directed by Yury Bykov

Starring Denis Shvedov, Irina Nizina, Yury Bykov, Boris Nevzorov, Kirill Poluhin, Dmitriy Kulichkov, Dmitry Kuryanov, Ilya Isaev

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First cinema release anywhere7 August 2013 (Russia and Sweden)

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Russia7 Aug 2013
Sweden7 Aug 2013

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