Major Grom (2017 film)
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| Directed by | Vladimir Besedin |
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Vladimir Besedin Fyodor Kan Artyom Gabrelyanov |
| Written by | Artyom Gabrelyanov Vladimir Besedin |
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Major Grom by Artyom Gabrelyanov Jevgénij Fyedotov |
| Starring | Aleksander Gorbatov Ivan Fominov Anton Kuznetsov Ilya Zhinilo Danila Yakushev |
| Music by | Roman Seliverstov |
| Cinematography | Arseny Kan |
| Edited by | Aleksandr Bulygin |
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| Distributed by | Channel One Russia |
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25 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Major Grom (Russian: Майор Гром) is a 2017 short film directed by Vladimir Besedin based on comic character Major Grom.
The plans to make a film was announced on Comic-Con Russia in October 2015, when Bubble Comics announced the creation of its own film division: Bubble Studios. The script was completed on 23 February 2016. The filming process was started in mid-August in Saint Petersburg and continued until 28 August 2016.
The short film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on 11 February 2017 as test footage for a full-length film production to be released in 2018. It later became available for general public viewing on 21 February 2017 through Bubble Comics' YouTube channel and on the site Life.ru, the latter gaining more than 1.7 million views on the first day of the film's release there. On 9 March 2017, it was screened on the Russian television station Channel One. On 21 July 2017, the short film was screened during the San Diego Comic Con and included a Q&A session with its creators — Vladimir Besedin, Artem Gabrelyanov and Roman Kotkov.
The plot of the film about the major of the MVD of St. Petersburg, Igor Grom, trying to stop the robbery of the bank, save the hostages and arrest a gang of three bandits hiding their identity under the masks of characters from the Soviet cartoon .
Three armed men, dressed in red sports suits and disguised as hockey players villains from the popular Soviet cartoon "", break into a fictitious "Rosgarantbank" in St Petersburg to rob it. They intimidate visitors and try to find the manager who must have the keys to the bank safe. Unable to find him, the leader of the gang grabs a little girl and threatens to shoot her if the manager does not come to him in a few seconds. As a result, a man appears from the opposite side of the room, representing as the manager, with the appropriate badge on his chest. The leader sends another member of the gang, nicknamed "The Psycho", with him to the safe. They approach the door, the man looks for the keys and opens it. The bandit first roars in anger, not seeing a mountain of money in front of him, but later finds inside a separate depository for cash savings and gold. In the euphoria from a lot of money, the robber begins feverishly putting everything into a cart. After a while, he is trying to pull up this case and the manager himself, who watched all the action from the side. "Psycho" approaches him and sharply notices that his face does not coincide with the manager's photo on the badge. Being exposed, the man shock the robber.
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