Novaya Zemlya is an action film

Action film

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

, directed by Aleksandr Melnik and released in 2008. The film stars Konstantin Lavronenko

Konstantin Lavronenko

Konstantin Nikolaevich Lavronenko is a Russian actor most commonly accredited for his performance as the mysterious father of two boys in 2003 film Vozvrashcheniye...

, Andrei Feskov, Marat Basharov

Marat Basharov

Marat Basharov is a Russian film actor. He has appeared in 30 films since 1994. He starred in the film The Wedding, which was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* The Barber of Siberia...

, Pavel Sborshchikov, Sergei Zhigunov, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister and Ingeborga Dapkunaite

Ingeborga Dapkunaite

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė is a Lithuanian actress, who stars mostly in Russian movies.-Youth:Ingeborga Dapkunaite was born in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR. Her father was a diplomat and her mother a meteorologist. For many years her parents worked in Moscow, and she only saw them on holidays...

. It was filmed in Russia, Ukraine, Malta and Norway.

Plot

In 2013, capital punishment is abolished. With prison spaces running out, a bunch of prisoners are taken to an island called Novaya Zemlya

Novaya Zemlya

Novaya Zemlya , also known in Dutch as Nova Zembla and in Norwegian as , is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia and the extreme northeast of Europe, the easternmost point of Europe lying at Cape Flissingsky on the northern island...

 for the sake of an experiment.

Cast

• Konstantin Lavronenko
  Konstantin Lavronenko
  Konstantin Nikolaevich Lavronenko is a Russian actor most commonly accredited for his performance as the mysterious father of two boys in 2003 film Vozvrashcheniye...
  
   as Zhilin
• Andrei Feskov as Sipa
• Marat Basharov
  Marat Basharov
  Marat Basharov is a Russian film actor. He has appeared in 30 films since 1994. He starred in the film The Wedding, which was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* The Barber of Siberia...
  
   as Tolya
• Pavel Sborshchikov as Obezyan
• Sergei Zhigunov as Polkovnik
• Aleksandr Samoylenko as Ali
• Tommy 'Tiny' Lister as Sewing Dude
• Ingeborga Dapkunaite
  Ingeborga Dapkunaite
  Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė is a Lithuanian actress, who stars mostly in Russian movies.-Youth:Ingeborga Dapkunaite was born in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR. Her father was a diplomat and her mother a meteorologist. For many years her parents worked in Moscow, and she only saw them on holidays...
  
   as Marta
• Sergei Koltakov as Makhov
• Evgeny Titov as Moryak
• Vladislav Abashin as Arzhanov
• Zaza Chichinadze as Amurbek
• Viktor Zhalsanov as Yakut
• Nikolai Stotsky as Volynets
• Igor Pismenniy as Olafson

External links

• Novaya Zemlya at Internet Movie Database
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