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Liquidation (2007)

Liquidation poster
Original title
Ликвидация
Directed by
Sergei Ursuliak
Genre
detective film
Country
Russia
Length
1 season, 14 episodes
Rated
16+
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1946 Odessa, the city is overrun by criminals who escaped from prison and worked with the Nazis. Disgraced Marshal Zhukov teams up with a local police chief to clean up the crime.

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What happens

Liquidation (2007) (Russian: Ликвидация, Likvidatsiya) is a highly popular Russian television series. The year is 1946. World War II is over, but the post-war city of Odessa is ruled by serial killer prison-escapees and former Nazi collaborators. Fallen into disfavor, Soviet general Marshal Zhukov is sent to Odessa by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to handle the situation. Together with the head of the local criminal investigation unit, David Gottsman, Marshal Zhoukov begins a special operation post-war Odessa crime cleanup. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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