Command Performance (2009 film)
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| Directed by | Dolph Lundgren |
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Les Weldon Danny Lerner |
| Screenplay by |
Steve Latshaw Dolph Lundgren |
| Story by | Dolph Lundgren |
| Starring | Dolph Lundgren Melissa Smith Hristo Shopov Dave Legeno |
| Music by | Adam Nordén |
| Cinematography | Marc Windon |
| Edited by | Peter Hollywood |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
Command Performance is a 2009 American action film written and directed by Dolph Lundgren, who also starred in the film. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on November 3, 2009.
The film was premiered at the Ischia Global Film & Music Festival on July 18, 2009. Filming took place between August and September 2008 in Sofia, Bulgaria and Moscow, Russia.
Dolph Lundgren wanted to use his drumming skills on screen, and the story was inspired by a concert Madonna did for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The movie marks Ida Lundgren's (Dolph's daughter) screen début.
In August 1991, there was an attempted coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by ex-communist military hard-liners. The coup failed, and all members of it were arrested; from the ashes of the old Soviet Union, the modern Russian Federation was born.
Russian President Alexei Petrov (Hristo Shopov) has asked for pop sensation Venus (Melissa Smith) to perform a concert in Moscow, because his daughters Anna (Ida Lundgren) and Yana (Robin Dobson) are fans of Venus.
The concert turns bloody when armed men led by Oleg Kazov (Dave Legeno) take the concert hostage. It seems that Oleg has a personal vendetta against Petrov.
Former biker gang member Joe (Dolph Lundgren), the drummer of CMF, the opening rock band, starts fighting back. As it turns out, back in the USA, when Joe was still in the biker gang, some Colombians who wanted to collect a debt went to the apartment that Joe and his brother lived in.
The Colombians fatally shot Joe's brother. Joe hunted the group of Colombians down and killed them, and ever since then, Joe has tried to stay away from guns, because guns remind him of what the group of Colombians did.
Now, basically most of the civilians and staff, including Venus's brother Enzo (Atanas Srebrev), who was her manager, are killed by Oleg's men, all except Joe, Venus, reporter Ali Connor (Shelly Varod), American Ambassador Jim Bradley (Clement von Franckenstein), FSB agent Mikhail Kapista (Zachary Baharov), President Petrov, and his two daughters.
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