Piranha (2006 film)

Piranha
Directed by	Andrey Kavun
Screenplay by	Dmitry Zverkov
Based on	Piranya protiv vorov 2004 novel by Aleksandr Bushkov
Produced by	Valery Todorovsky Ilya Neretin
Starring	Vladimir Mashkov Svetlana Antonova Yevgeny Mironov
Cinematography	Roman Vasyanov
Edited by	Aleksey Bobrov
Music by	Dmitry Taravkov Vitaliy Artist
Production company	Rekun TV
Distributed by	Central Partnership
Release date	6 April 2006 (2006-04-06)
Running time	167 min
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Piranha (Russian: Охота на пиранью, romanized: lit. The hunt for piranha) is a 2006 Russian action film directed by Andrey Kavun.[1]

Plot

Under the guise of a joint holiday, police agent Kirill Mazur and his colleague Olga are sent to the Siberian taiga to liquidate a chemical weapons laboratory flooded at the bottom of the lake in a territory that will soon be abandoned to neighboring China.

Cast

• Vladimir Mashkov as Mazur
• Svetlana Antonova as Olga
• Yevgeny Mironov as Prokhor
• Viktoriya Isakova as Sinilga
• Sergei Garmash as Zima
• Andrey Merzlikin as Shtabs
• Mikhail Yefremov as Dorokhov
• Alexey Gorbunov as Kuzmich
• Anna Banshchikova [ru] as Viktoriya
• Alexander Sirin [ru] as doctor
• Anna Ukolova as Nina

Awards

• MTV Russia Movie Awards — best movie villain (Yevgeny Mironov)

References

1. Bryan Senn (29 October 2013). The Most Dangerous Cinema: People Hunting People on Film. McFarland. pp. 174–175. ISBN 978-1-4766-1357-4.

External links

• Piranha at IMDb