Shugaley 3: The Return

"Love for the motherland is stronger than death"

2021 1h 30m RU

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9.0

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★9.0TMDB · 4

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Synopsis

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Maxim Shugaley and Samer Sueifan are finally returning to Russia after a long captivity in the Libyan prison "Mitiga". A few months later, a former bank manager in Tripoli, Farid, comes to Shugalei and offers to meet in Egypt — he has new information about terrorists in Libya. But the meeting of friends in Cairo will not take place. To help Farid avoid his own fate, Maxim will have to postpone his plans for a while…

“Love for the motherland is stronger than death”

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Cast

Kirill Poluhin
Maxim Shugaley
Oleg Abalyan
Samer Sueifan
Aleksei Kravchenko
Kalina
Evgeny Terskikh
Kuban
Mikhail Bogdanov
Tobol
Aleksey Udaltsov
Frenchman
Sergey Yatsenyuk
Prokofiev
Samvel Muzhikyan
Farid

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Mikhail Vasserbaum
Writers: Vladimir Izmaylov
Languages: Russian
Countries: Russia

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RUNTIME

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90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 5 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Shugaley Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Vitaly Mukanyaev. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Kirill Poluhin and Oleg Abalyan and Aleksei Kravchenko carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Love for the motherland is stronger than death".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt17066696 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Mikhail Vasserbaum directs. Vitaly Mukanyaev scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Russia. Dialogue in Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 5 years ago.
3Part of the "Shugaley Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Original score by Vitaly Mukanyaev. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Kirill Poluhin and Oleg Abalyan and Aleksei Kravchenko carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Love for the motherland is stronger than death".
8IMDB entry: tt17066696 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.