

Petersburg "cream of society" will gather. Dubin puts forward the theory that the next appearance of the Doctor should be expected at the opening of a casino, where all of St. Meanwhile, the Doctor accumulates new victims: the head of a bank that defrauded depositors and the owner of a polluting landfill, along with the latter's entire family. In the meantime, Grom saves a young woman from thugs, but she turns out to be journalist and blogger Yulia Pchyolkina, who staged the attack in order to get close to Grom and obtain information about the Plague Doctor case for her blog. However, contrary to their official assignment, the two continue to investigate the Doctor's case, having received a tip from Grom's informant and unsuccessfully trying to knock information out of people associated with the criminal underworld. Instead, Grom and his new trainee, Dima Dubin, are sent to deal with the theft of twelve refrigerators. FSB officer Evgeny Strelkov, who arrives from Moscow to capture the Doctor, removes the major from the case. Grom, who witnessed the murder, is trying to investigate it and find the Doctor, who is now considered by many to be a hero.

Razumovsky is upset by this, but hesitates to turn his friend in to the authorities. After the murder, Oleg comes to Razumovsky and confesses that he was the Doctor. The Doctor burns Kirill Grechkin to death in his car. At the same time, videos of the Plague Doctor appear on the internet-an avenger in a mask and a combat suit, armed with bombs and flamethrowers, who promises to "cleanse" the city of scoundrels. IT millionaire Sergei Razumovsky, founder of the social network Vmeste, and his friend Oleg Volkov, who grew up in the same orphanage as the deceased girl, are also outraged by the court's decision. Despite the evidence against him, Grechkin is acquitted and the brother of the deceased, Lyosha Makarov, suspects the court of corruption.
#Movie major grom plague doctor trial#
Soon after, the trial of "rich boy" Kirill Grechkin begins he is accused of fatally hitting a girl with his car. Saint Petersburg police major Igor Grom is chasing three bank robbers dressed in red sports suits and disguised as villainous hockey players from the popular Soviet cartoon Puck! Puck! He catches them, while causing significant property damage, and gets reprimanded by his superior, colonel General Fedor Prokopenko. The film failed at the box office, collecting only 328 million rubles in the CIS, with a budget of 640 million rubles, but it proved popular on Netflix and Kinopoisk HD. Some observers have claimed that the film aims a reproachful message towards the Russian opposition and praise for the police, but not all reviewers agreed with this opinion the authors themselves have denied these allegations in several interviews. Major Grom: Plague Doctor was generally assessed by critics moderately positively: the general high quality of the work was noted, but at the same time, it was scolded for the clichéd and unoriginal plot. The online premiere took place on on KinoPoisk HD and Netflix. Major Grom: Plague Doctor had its premiere on 25 March 2021 in St.

Three years later, a full-fledged trailer was presented at the Comic Con Russia 2020, with a tentative release date. The film is set in Saint Petersburg and tells the story of police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with unconventional methods, who pursues a vigilante murderer in the mask of a plague doctor.Ī teaser for the film was first screened on 30 September 2017 at the IgroMir / Comic-Con Russia 2017, after which the project faced difficulties in production for some time-the team was disbanded and reassembled, and the concept of the film was redone from scratch. It stars Tikhon Zhiznevsky in the lead role, alongside Lyubov Aksyonova, Aleksei Maklakov, Aleksandr Seteykin, Sergei Goroshko, and Dmitry Chebotaryov. Prior to that, the studio had released the short film Major Grom. It is the second film adapted from Bubble Comics, as well as the first feature-length film based on a Russian comic.
#Movie major grom plague doctor series#
Major Grom: Plague Doctor ( Russian: Майор Гром: Чумной Доктор, romanized: Mayor Grom: Chumnoy Doktor) is a 2021 Russian action film directed by Oleg Trofim, based on the comic book series of the same name by the Russian publisher Bubble Comics, created by Artyom Gabrelyanov.
