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Vladimir Menshov has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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Charlie Countryman
2013
Action · Comedy

Secretly, Greatly
2013
Action · Drama

Man on Fire
2004
Action · Drama

The Business
2005
Drama · Action

Azumi
2003
Adventure · Drama

Domino
2005
Action · Crime

Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008
Drama · Action

Middle Men
2009
Drama · Comedy

In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning of a new life for him, exciting and strange, but lacking his home, his wife and children, and his pigeons.
Dir. Vladimir Menshov · With Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Nina Doroshina, Lyudmila Gurchenko

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.
Dir. Vladimir Menshov · With Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.
Dir. Karen Shakhnazarov · With Fyodor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death
Dir. Nikolay Lebedev · With Danila Kozlovsky, Oleg Menshikov, Vladimir Menshov

A year later the men are still talking, but this time on the 31st of December and still about the women, football, children, and, of course, about the approaching New Year’s celebration. But what can they do, if their beloved wives and girls are waiting for them at Kamil’s, busy with New Year tree decoration and cooking, and the husbands are accidentally got stuck in the advertising agency office? Will they manage to get home in time to celebrate the New Year together?
Dir. Dmitriy Dyachenko · With Leonid Barats, Rostislav Khait, Kamil Larin

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage
Dir. Timur Bekmambetov · With Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina

Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison.
Dir. Igor Zaytsev · With Sergey Bezrukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Alyona Babenko

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.
Dir. Timur Bekmambetov · With Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov
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