The film opens with Grom stopping a group of bank robbers, which, after several failed mental video game playthroughs, leads him to commandeer a garbage truck and ram their vehicle into the square outside the Winter Palace. Grom has no superpowers, save for his ability to keep his flat cap on all times, and a talent for vividly imagining how scenarios could play out (similar to Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes), which offers several fun rug pulls. Saint Petersburg is ruled by the oligarchy, and the Plague Doctor has vowed to burn them down - literally.Īs well as Grom, the film also tells the story of “Dima” Dubin (Aleksandr Seteykin), a rookie who is assigned as Grom’s partner Yulia Pchelkina (Lyubov Aksyonova), a citizen journalist whose quest to unmask the Plague Doctor causes her to butt heads with Grom Sergei Razumovsky (Sergei Goroshko), a tech bro inadvertently responsible for the fiend’s existence and “Lyosha” Makarov (Oleg Chugunov), a boy whose sister was run over and killed by a rich douchebag, leading him to idolize the Doctor.
MAJOR GROM THE PLAGUE DOCTOR SERIES
Directed by Oleg Trofim, the film, based on the Bubble Comics series of the same name, follows Igor Grom (Tikhon Zhiznevsky), a Saint Petersburg Police detective, as he battles a murderous vigilante resembling a plague era physician. It’s more a case of exploiting newsworthy topics to make money.Marvel have finally released the Black Widow movie, but it’s well worth remembering Russia has its own comic book and film industries, and perhaps coincidentally, this week saw the US release of Major Grom: Plague Doctor - reportedly the first feature film based on a Russian comic - on Netflix. Why the world should care: Films like ‘Major Grom: Plague Doctor’ can’t seriously be seen as Kremlin propaganda. There is even a human link: the founder of Bubble, which publishes Major Grom, is the son of media magnate Aram Gabrelyanov who founded the muck-racking, pro-Kremlin tabloid LifeNews.
MAJOR GROM THE PLAGUE DOCTOR MOVIE
Many have spotted an attempt at a subtle form of Russian propaganda in both the Major Grom movie and the comics on which it is based.And when Razumovsky is unmasked, he tries to organize riots on the streets. The movie also reflects Durov’s conflict with the Russian security services: when Major Grom demands Razumovsky release the identity of the Plague Doctor - who broadcasts a murder on his social network - Razumovsky refuses, insisting that Vmeste respects anonymity.It’s not hard to spot references to Pavel Durov in Razumovsky Durov founded a social network called Vkontakte - a Russian equivalent of Facebook - before going on to create Telegram. Eventually, it turns out that the Plague Doctor is an alter-ego for internet entrepreneur Sergei Razumovsky, the creator of social network Vmeste that spreads murderous propaganda. Petersburg until things are upended by the so-called Plague Doctor, a masked villain who dispenses arbitrary justice and promises to ‘cleanse’ the city.
In them, detective Igor Grom (Grom is the Russian word for thunder) keeps order in his native St.
18 July 2021 ‘Major Grom’ brings Russians and American togetherĪ Russian action film with coded references to Russian politics became Netflix’s most-streamed film this week.
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