Dmitry KISELEV
Дмитрий КИСЕЛЕВ
Dmitri KISSELEV
Aleksandr VOYTINSKIY
Александр ВОЙТИНСКИЙ
Aleksandr VOÏTINSKI
Russia, 2009, 107mn 
Colour, fiction
Black-Lightning
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Черная молния

 

 L'Eclair noir

 Chornaya molniya

 
Directed by : Dmitry KISELEV (Дмитрий КИСЕЛЕВ), Aleksandr VOYTINSKIY (Александр ВОЙТИНСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Juozas BUDRAITIS (Юозас БУДРАЙТИС)
Grigori DOBRYGIN (Григорий ДОБРЫГИН) ...Dmitri Maykov
Sergey GARMASH (Сергей ГАРМАШ) ...Dmitri's father
Yekaterina REZNIKOVA (Екатерина РЕЗНИКОВА) ...Nastya
Igor SAVOCHKIN (Игорь САВОЧКИН)
Yekaterina VASILIEVA (Екатерина ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Viktor VERZHBITSKY (Виктор ВЕРЖБИЦКИЙ)
Mikhail YEFREMOV (Михаил ЕФРЕМОВ)
Ivan ZHIDKOV (Иван ЖИДКОВ)
Valery ZOLOTUKHIN (Валерий ЗОЛОТУХИН)
 
Produced by : Timur BEKMAMBETOV (Тимур БЕКМАМБЕТОВ)
Production : Bazelevs
International Sales:Universal Pictures
Film revenue in Russia : 19.7 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 31/12/2009
 
Site : IMDb
Release date in France : 2010-07-28, Site

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Universal. 2011. Titre : BLACK LIGHTNING.
Languages : RU, FR, EN, NE, TCH
Subtitles : RU, FR, EN, NE, TCH

Plot synopsis
One day workers on construction site for skyscrapers in Moscow discover Soviet underground bunker and old rusty Volga in it. One worker give it as a present to his son, an ordinary student of Moscow State University. Later he discovers that his rusty car is able to fly. He will be able to not only avoid trafficjams, but he unexpectedly finds himself the city’s defender, mysterious fighter against evil.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
L’éclair noir (2009), Julien MORVAN, Perestroikino, 2021
L’éclair noir : le super héros qui venait du froid !, gaucherepublicaine.org, 2011
Dmitrii Kiselev and Aleksandr Voitinskii : Black Lightning (Chernaia molniia, 2009), Muireann MAGUIRE, kinokultura.com, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2010
- Festival Fantasia, Montreal (Canada), 2010
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2010-07-28
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2010

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