Novaya Zemlya (The New Land)
2008 · Movie · 130 min. · Russia
Near future. The death penalty was abolished worldwide, prisons are overcrowded. More and more funds needed for the maintenance of convicts to life imprisonment. International organizations decide to make an experiment. Russia provides an uninhabited island in the north, where a small settlement is developed. The first prisoners from Russia come to island. They must start a new life and arrange their own society. However, the settlers begin to live by the law: “last is dead”.
Direction Aleksandr Melnik
Cast Konstantin Lavronenko · Marat Basharov · Ingeborga Dapkunaite · Sergei Zhigunov · Andrei Feskov · Ramis Iragimov · Tommy 'Tiny' Lister
Screenplay Arif Aliyev
Cinematography Ilya Dyomin
Original title Novaya Zemlya (The New Land)
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