Synopsis
A promising law graduate, Nikolai joins a police department to set out on his first assignment. His unmatched judgment and swift movements put him ahead of other detectives where he discovers the correlation of two recent murder scenes, further associated with the massacre of Russian army during the Chechen war. In the course of investigation, Nikolai visits two brothers who were victimized by the war and is taken aback to see them in total agony with incurable wounds. The Russian Triangle, directed by Aleko TSABADZE, takes the trendy narrative of crime investigation represented by homicidal crimes, computer science, or CSI. At the same time, the director also takes this opportunity to ring a bell on traditional Russian literary figures including Dostoevsky and Pushkin. The Russian Triangle seeks in the end to dilute the noise between Russia and Georgia over the issue of independence through nostalgia for the Soviet Union and blunt optimism. The movie is Georgia's submission to the Academy Awards 2008 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. (Jin PARK)