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Aug
30
2008

A Second Trailer For Russian Thriller THE NEW LAND

Posted by Todd Brown at 6:02pm.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Drama, Action, Continental Europe & Russia.

I’m not really sure why but the initial teaser for Aleksandr Melnik’s New Land didn’t quite work for me.  The storyline was compelling enough, there were some familiar - and welcome - faces in the cast, and the script is from the same pen as recent epic Mongol so i felt like I should like it but it just wasn’t clicking.  Well, enough of that and on to the new trailer, just passed our way by regular reader Vladimir.  This one?  Yeah, this one works.  The film is essentially an adult Lord of the Flies and this one packs the sort of tension that such a story needs.

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”.

You can check both trailers in the Twitch Player below the break.

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Reader Comments

  1. Kurt Halfyard 08/31/2008 @ 12:04pm

    Awesome, the lead is the fabulously expressive Konstantin Lavronenko, who was the main star of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s two films (THE RETURN, THE BANISHMENT).  I’ll go see this for him alone!

  2. Kurt Halfyard 08/31/2008 @ 12:16pm

    Also, Tony “Tiny” Lister is in there (???), interesting guy who is usually a minor player in interesting projects (Jackie Brown, The Dark Knight, spring to mind in between all the crap he appears in).  Strange that He’d be in a full-on russian production, but interesting.

  3. Applecart 09/01/2008 @ 7:48pm

    I love the SOS shot.
    I’m intrigued.  would be nice to know what the lines were in the trailer ^_^

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