# Dead Man's Bluff (2005)

> Two inept Russian gangsters turn a series of botched drug deals into a brutally comic descent through post-Soviet criminal underworlds.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/12655

## Facts

- Runtime: 111 min
- Genres: Crime, Comedy, Thriller
- Director: Aleksei Balabanov
- Cast: Aleksey Panin, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Anatoli Zhuravlyov, Grigorij Sijatvinda, Viktor Sukhorukov, Garik Sukachyov
- TMDB rating: 6.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420982/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: sardonic, irreverent, frantic, cult film night, dark comedy marathon

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