Siberian This film - a lie from the first to the last frame. This book - a lie from the first page to the last. Bender - a city in Ukraine. A citizen of Ukraine can not fight in Chechnya. This film - a lie from the first to the last frame. This book - a lie from the first page to the last. Bender - a city in Ukraine. A citizen of Ukraine can not fight in Chechnya. This film - a lie from the first to the last frame. This book - a lie from the first page to the last. Bender - a city in Ukraine. A citizen of Ukraine can not fight in Chechnya. This film - a lie from the first to the last frame. This book - a lie from the first page to the last. Bender - a city in Ukraine. A citizen of Ukraine can not fight in Chechnya.

healingart In the 1930s Stalin moved the members of the Siberian mafia from their homeland to Transnistria at the periphery of the Russian empire in order to weaken them by eradicating them from their homeland. Siberian criminals settled down around the river Dniester and, predictably, soon successfully resumed their activities. What is striking about these criminals – the honest criminals, as Lilin refers to them – is their code of honour. Siberian criminals do not deal either in drugs or prostitutes; they pay the highest respect to women (particularly pregnant women), to children and orphans, and to their elders; they consider the mentally and physically disabled or handicapped as being endowed with a special gift from God ("God-willed", as they describe them). The so-called Siberian Education is a special upbringing that brings together their criminal code and the Orthodox tradition implying, among other things, never mentioning the name of God or of the Holy Mother in vain. Furthermore, respect for the freedom of every living thing, humility, and simplicity are the basis of the Siberian criminal life. As young Kolima (the author's nickname) soon learns by listening to and watching his fellow rascals of Low River, in the city of Bender, "respect, courage, friendship, loyalty" play a pivotal role within this restricted society. All these values seem to hint at the pervasiveness of religion in the Siberian criminal community. Paradoxically enough for people used to manoeuvring pikes (flick-knives), rifles, guns, Kalashnikovs, the sacredness of life is at the centre of everyday practice. As Lilin puts it, "Our philosophy of life has a close relation to death; children are taught that taking someone else's life or dying are perfectly acceptable things, if there is a good reason".[1] Thus, children from a small age are accustomed to watch their parents killing small animals; later, they are given the opportunity to kill small animals themselves and to practice with their knife on the carcasses of bigger animals, like pigs or oxen. By the age of thirteen or fourteen the apprentice criminal might have one murder to his name. This is not at all perceived as dishonourable, since it does not imply vices such as sadism or cowardice. Even hunting in the woods is seen as a purification ritual "which enables a person to return to the state of primal innocence in which God created man".[2] Siberian criminal society is highly ritualized, and strict and severe rules codify almost every aspect of everyday life, from killing to sipping your tea, to choosing a tattoo.

Tss5078 When used properly, John Malkovich is the best of the best when it comes to playing the bad guy. In his latest film, Deadly Code, Malkovich is playing the Grandfather of a Siberian crime syndicate and much like Brando in the Godfather, is used sparely to impart words of wisdom on his young decedents. Siberia is one of the coldest and most desolate places on the planet. When a criminal is too dangerous to even be put in the jail of a major Russian city, they are dumped into Siberia. Crime is rampant and everything is run by organized crime families, who's strict code of loyalty and honor puts even the Italians to shame. Kolyma (Vilius Turnalavicius) is the grandson and the film is split between Kolyma in the army, hunting down a wanted man, and his time growing up in a crime family under his Grandfathers guidance. Mafia movies traditionally follow a format and this film was no different, with the except of the setting, so when I heard it was the Godfather of Russian organized crime and started John Malkovich, I wondered how it was possible that I'd never heard of it, well now I know. There are these crazy rules and code of honor that these guys live by, making them gangsters who aren't really violent. They simply steal from the government to help their community. In a real sense, it's about sophisticated, responsible criminals, helping people, and avoiding the police. While honorable, it makes for an extremely slow moving film, add to that all the Russian actors trying to speak English, and you have a film that's somewhat hard to even understand. Subtitles and some more action would have helped, but so would have a more experienced cast. Most of these guys have no other listings on IMDb and the inexperience shows. The story of Deadly Code seems like a good idea, but when you have a lack of action, mixed with inexperienced actors, speaking in a way that is barely understandable, you have a very uninteresting movie that is more than somewhat hard to watch.

Blueorca-1 I've been a member here for years. And i never wrote a review. But after watching this movie, even though there are bad reviews, I've just had to do a short review.This movie surprised me extremely. Its not perfect. But there's so much love to detail, its just art. Im not a big fan of movies about Russia nor do i like john malkowich very much. I've always thought of him as a pretty weird actor. In this movie: he was just perfect!Lower your expectations, watch this movie and i hope you will be positively surprised like i was. Somehow i hope there will be a sequel to this movie :) I got tired of the Italian mafia movies, Chinese marshal arts movies or American movies with big special effects... This was a welcome refreshment!P.S Im sorry for my weird English, it has been years since I've talked to anyone or written in English. I just watch movies with English audio a lot. :)