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Alien Girl (2010)

Alien Girl poster
Original title
Чужая
Directed by
Anton Bormatov
Genre
drama film, action film, road movie
Country
Russia
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
R
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the 1990s, a Ukrainian mob boss sends henchmen to kidnap a gang member's sister in the Czech Republic. They discover she is a killer who manipulates them into turning on each other.

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What happens

The Alien Girl (Russian: Чужая, romanized: Chuzhaya) is a 2010 Russian crime film directed by Anton Bormatov. Co-written by Vladimir Nesterenko and Sergei Sokolyuk, the film features Natalia Romanycheva in the lead role along with Evgeniy Tkachuk, Kirill Polukhin, Anatoliy Otradnov, Aleksandr Golubkov and Evgeniy Mundum. It is based on a novel of the same name, by Ukrainian author Vladimir “Adolfovich” Nesterenko. Set in the 1990s, the film follows a group of henchmen sent by a Ukrainian mob boss to kidnap a gang member's sister hiding in the Czech Republic. Things take a turn when she is revealed to be a killer who plays her captors against each other. The film was released in Russia on 17 June 2010. It was released in America by Fox International Productions on 17 December 2010. It received largely unfavorable reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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