DVD & Digital Release Date: May 14, 2014
Price: DVD $26.98
Studio: Lionsgate
John Malkovich is banished to Siberia in Deadly Code.
Deadly Code is a crime drama based on the memoir Siberian Education by Russian writer Nicolai Lilin.
In the movie, two-time Academy Award nominee John Malkovich (Red) stars as the patriarch of a Siberian criminal clan who is banished to live in the punishment town of Transnistria in 1985. There, he schools his grandson on the “honest criminal” code of their community, which must never be broken.
Directed by Italian-born filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores, the film co-stars Eleanor Tomlinson (Jack the Giant Slayer) and Peter Stormare (Pain & Gain).
The R-rated 2013 film received limited theatrical distribution in Europe and the Middle East. It arrives in the U.S. as a DVD Premiere and a Video on Demand title.
The DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet) includes a making-of featurette as a bonus feature.
Buy or Rent Deadly Code...
Price: DVD $26.98
Studio: Lionsgate
John Malkovich is banished to Siberia in Deadly Code.
Deadly Code is a crime drama based on the memoir Siberian Education by Russian writer Nicolai Lilin.
In the movie, two-time Academy Award nominee John Malkovich (Red) stars as the patriarch of a Siberian criminal clan who is banished to live in the punishment town of Transnistria in 1985. There, he schools his grandson on the “honest criminal” code of their community, which must never be broken.
Directed by Italian-born filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores, the film co-stars Eleanor Tomlinson (Jack the Giant Slayer) and Peter Stormare (Pain & Gain).
The R-rated 2013 film received limited theatrical distribution in Europe and the Middle East. It arrives in the U.S. as a DVD Premiere and a Video on Demand title.
The DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet) includes a making-of featurette as a bonus feature.
Buy or Rent Deadly Code...
- 4/10/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
★★☆☆☆ John Malkovich plays a menacing Russian kingpin in Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores' Siberian Education (2013). Based on the memoirs of gangster turned gallery-owner Nicolai Lilin, this English-language, Russian-based crime drama sadly fails to break down the ideological barriers of nation, culminating in an anodyne potpourri of genre clichés and cultural stereotypes. Told through a series of flashbacks, the 'education' of the title relates to Kolyma (Arnas Fedaravicius), a Russian soldier fighting in Chechnya whose Siberian upbringing has aptly prepared him for the brutal atrocities of war.
Kolyma's teacher was grandfather Kuzya (Malkovich), perhaps the most respected man in this community of displaced thieves and hoods. Kuzya taught Kolyma to respect all living things, yet this credence draws a line at anyone who makes money from the proletariat or enforces the bureaucracy of the state, with policemen, loan sharks, politicians and bankers all exempt. However, when you justify violence against a...
Kolyma's teacher was grandfather Kuzya (Malkovich), perhaps the most respected man in this community of displaced thieves and hoods. Kuzya taught Kolyma to respect all living things, yet this credence draws a line at anyone who makes money from the proletariat or enforces the bureaucracy of the state, with policemen, loan sharks, politicians and bankers all exempt. However, when you justify violence against a...
- 10/8/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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