Black Lightning (film)

Black Lightning
Directed by	Alexandr Voitinsky Dmitry Kiseilov
Produced by	Timur Bekmambetov
Written by	Dmitriy Aleinikov Aleksandr Talal Aleksandr Voitinskiy Mikhail Vrubel
Starring	Grigori Dobrigin Ekaterina Vilkova Sergei Garmash Viktor Verzhbitsky
Studio	Focus Features International
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	December 26, 2009 (2009-12-26) (Moscow)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Black Lightning (Russian: Чёрная Молния; translit. Chornaya Molniya) is a 2009 Russian action-adventure sci-fi film directed by Alexandr Voitinsky and Dmitry Kiseliov, and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.

Plot

Dmitry Maykov (Grigori Dobrigin) is a student of the Moscow State University, and a poor family's son and friend of Maxim (Ivan Zhidkov), a wealthy young student owner of a fancy Mercedes. Jealous of his friend, he aks his parents for a car. His birthday arrives and he has the surprise of his life when his father (Sergei Garmash) gives him a car. Unfortunately for him, isn't the car of his dreams: an old GAZ 21 Volga.

Ashamed by the car, he just makes use of the vehicle to drive to the next tramway stop for going to the university until one day he discovers the Volga is able to fly.

Cast

• Grigori Dobrigin as Dmitriy Maykov/Black Lightning
• Ekaterina Vilkova as Nastya Svetlova
• Viktor Verzhbitsky as Pr. Viktor Kuptsov
• Sergei Garmash as Pavel Maykov (Dmitry's father)
• Elena Valyushkina as Nastasia Maykova (Dmitry's mother)
• Katia Starshova as Tania Maykova (Dmitry's sister)
• Ivan Zhidkov as Maxim
• Igor Savochkin as Boria Ivanovich
• Valeri Zolotukhin as Pavel Perepelkin
• Ekaterina Vasilieva as Olga Romantseva
• Juosas Budraitis as Mikhail Elizarov
• Dato Bakhtadze as Bahram Mamedovich
• Mikhail Efremov as the Drunk guy

References

• Интервью с Тимуром Бекмамбетовым для Интерфакса //interfax.ru
• Интервью с Александром Воткинским и Дмитрием Киселевым //Lenta.ru

External links

• Black Lightning at the Internet Movie DatabaseCategpry:Focus Features films