Characters & Themes
Kings of Crime (1988) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1988 · 95 mins · Russian
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- Directed by
- Yuriy Kara
- Starring
- Nurbey Kamkiya, Valentin Gaft, Boris Shcherbakov, Vladimir Steklov, Konstantin Kishchuk, Anna Samokhina
Against the backdrop of the communist Soviet Union, two powerful criminal gangs and their veteran ‘dons’ (vory v zakone) engage in a violent struggle for dominance. The story exposes deep corruption, cynical rhetoric, and the tragic loss of innocent lives caught in the conflict.
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