Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game

January. 19,1987      
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Fifteen year old gifted teenager Ruslan Chutko longs to do good and help the police to identify offenses under the pseudonym Plumbum. Plumbum decides in a single provincial town to eradicate the evil. However, in his interest of being a fighter against evil he goes far beyond what is permitted in a children's play and ends up ruthlessly invading people's lives.

Anton Androsov as  Ruslan Chutko - «Plumbum»
Yelena Dmitriyeva as  Sonya Orekhova
Elena Yakovleva as  Mariya
Zoya Lirova as  Zoya Chutko - Ruslan's mother
Aleksandr Feklistov as  Roman Ivanovich - «Sedoy»
Vladimir Steklov as  Lopatov
Aleksandr Pashutin as  Viktor Chutko - Ruslan's father
Aleksey Zaytsev as  Kolya Oleg - homeless
Larisa Shinova as  «Tkachikha»
Sergey Serov as  Panov

Reviews

BootDigest
1987/01/19

Such a frustrating disappointment

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BlazeLime
1987/01/20

Strong and Moving!

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Platicsco
1987/01/21

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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Billy Ollie
1987/01/22

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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Rave-Reviewer
1987/01/23

A schoolboy proves so helpful to the police that they take him on as an undercover detective, but he is incapable of distinguishing the letter of the law from the human frailty it is there to defend.Thoughtful, watchable comment on blind subservience to 'the code', with a precocious hero whose innocence is at once the reason for our sympathy and his major fault. A possible allegory about fledgling democracies, or even Communist states, succumbing to ruthless idealism.

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