Name: Limita
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Evgeniy Mironov, Kristina Orbakaite

a brilliant movie about the epoch seems long gone now

This is an absolute Russian national prize Nika winner with the best leading actor and best supporting actor. Also the music is superb (Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev's, as in "Burnt by the Sun", "Barber of Siberia", "Mama", etc, etc; if anyone here hasn't heard of the great Russian composer - folks, you haven't heard Godlike music in your life!), the camera-work is delicious (Nikita Mikhalkov's constant partner Nikolay Lebeshev, who passed away in 1999, which is still a great loss for our national cinematography), and just check out the actors - Yevgeny Mironov (Nika Winner), Vladimir Mashkov (Nika Winner), Maxim Soukhanov, Kristina Orbakaite, Yrina Apeksimova (playing a bitch as always), SergeyGazarov... The plot is simple and it was in the air at the time. There is one talented guy Ivan who is unlocking other people's program, so he is a Russian hacker of the first wave. He is alone, besides his whores and accident drinking party buddies who are modern gangsters and businessmen in the first (they had never existed here before!) Moscow night clubs. And there is his friend working in a bank having a secret program. So their ways are to cross. So what will the Mashkov's character Ivan choose - to get $30,000 to open his friend's program with the bank accounts or to remain his only friend? And there is a funny girl whom Ivan (V.I.P.) met the other day when he f*cked her in a park bench one night which turned out to be his beloved woman later (a good sex scene for post-Soviet movies)! So we, watchers, laugh all the movie at Ivan and Petya watching their funny experiences and fights... And we cannot help but cry in the end.

Those were the middle 1990s with scores of organized killings, an era of crimson jackets and criminal showdowns. Who is Limita, you may ask. Limita were young people who came to Moscow to find success... Some found death... Watch this atmospheric movie with beautiful Mosccow sights, Fellini-like seemingly unreasonable activities and romance. The script's authors (great Pyotr Lutsyk and Alexey Samoryadov) are accidentally dead now as well as the producer Sergey Majarov killed by a gangster. We are alive...

Russian cinema is distinguished by its epic scale, philosophical depth, and innovative visual language. It often explores history, ideology, and the human psyche, with a tradition of psychological realism and artistic experimentation. Russian cinema contributed revolutionary theories of editing and later a spiritual approach to film language. It remains known for combining formal experimentation with profound explorations of endurance and belief.

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The drama genre is a broad category that features stories portraying human experiences, emotions, conflicts, and relationships in a realistic and emotionally impactful way. Dramas delve into the complexities of human life, often exploring themes of love, loss, morality, societal issues, personal growth, with the aim to evoke an emotional response from the audience by presenting relatable and thought-provoking stories.

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