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Synopsis
'Timofey Berezin works at a top-secret, badly rundown plutonium plant in a remote Russian town. At the film's outset, he is exposed to radiation while selflessly trying to stop a malfunction. The facility's draconian managers maintain his exposure was negligible, while accusing him of sabotage and suspending him. Loyal coworkers, however, help Timofey discover the truth: he was exposed to one thousand REMs of radiation (the citizens of Hiroshima received less). He has acute radiation poisoning and only days to live.
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Before Timofey's adoring wife, Marina (Radha Mitchell), is fully aware of his fate, he has left for Moscow on a mission to secure a better future for her and their young son. He hooks up with a small-stakes gangster, Shiv (Oscar Isaac), in hopes of finding a buyer for a vial of weapons-grade plutonium he has stolen. It's 1995, only a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and their demented Moscow night hurtles them through the hotels, nightclubs and private palaces of the new underworld, and ricocheting between two rival crime lords (charismatic, terrifying performances by Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Steven Berkoff). However, what Timofey and Shiv never realize is that they are both caught in the same vise: trying to find a way free of a certain fate, hoping to do right by their loved ones before it is too late. This tragic premise sets the stage for Scott Z. Burns's remarkable and cutting debut feature,The story is an adaptation of the short story 'Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies' by Ken Kalfus.
Paddy's Role
As Timofey Berezin a Russian nuclear technician turned Plutonium dealer, who Paddy describes as "Literally imploding with radiation sickness" and "going insane"
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Main Cast:
- Paddy Considine - Timofey Berezin
- Radha Mitchell - Marina
- Oscar Isaac - Shiv
- Danya Baryshnikov - Tolya
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas - Tusk
- Derek Hutchinson - Deputy
- Lucia Maier - Olgas - Tusk
- Steven Berkoff - Kurchatov
- Mélanie Thierry - Oxsana
- Jason Flemyng - Vlad
- Jordan Long - Yegor
- Kenneth Bryans - Prusokov
- Connor McIntyre - Director
- Florina Cercel - Valentina
- Ioana Abur - Mother Dog
- Irene Bagach - Victoria
- Elena Baranovshi - Old Woman
- Constantin Barbulescu - Dmitri
- Mihai Bendeac - Random Worker
- Ioan Brancu - TV Vendor
- Dan Chiriac - White Russian
- Anatoli Ciumac - Flat Head
- Oana Cojocaru - Svetlana
- Matyelok Gibbs - Ana
- Derek Hutchinson - Deputy
- Stefan Iancu - Andrei
- Sophia Lansky - Additional Voices
- Lucia Maier - Olga
- Melissa Milne - Librarian
- Raluca Mirescu - Lip Gloss
- Derren Nesbitt - Pepsi
- Rudy Rosenfeld - Vodka Bottle
- Andrea Soltuju - Way Too Young
- Bogdan Uritescu - Foreman
- Yoshinori Yamamoto - Japanese Business Man
Killer Quote:
"Light is a particle and a wave. This is hard to understand, how a thing can be two things at once. But a woman is also both a particle and a wave. She's a wave when you see her reach down to pull a shell from the sea, and you feel her beauty pass through you like electrical current. She's a particle when her hair brushes your face, and her hands push into yours. And a child is also a particle and a wave. He is a wave the sound of his pain shoots through and twists you away from yourself. And he is a particle when a doctor hands you a baby; a small mirror. Women, children and light can be two things at once; a particle, a wave. They ricochet off the hard surfaces and illuminate the corners. Without them it would be far darker. "
Awards:
2 wins.
Won: American Cinema Editors (US) Eddie,Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Award.
Trivia
The original name of the film was to be 'The Half life of Timofey Berezin'.
The film cost £60,000 ($30,000) to make.
Executive producers for this film include George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh. whom are responsible for films such as Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Eleven and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
The film was shot in Romania.
The release date for the film November 2007 in the US |
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