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Connected

Connected

★ 7,6 /10 (5 Votes)
2025 RU 104 min

Overview

The film chronicles the final journey of 88-year-old Russian former top-secret scientist and philanthropist Dmitriy Zimin, alongside his longtime American friend Augie Fabela, acting US police officer, before Zimin’s scheduled euthanasia. Against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions between Putin’s Russia and the USA and the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the film captures the closing scenes of a life and a time of peace. Zimin’s story is an embodiment of the harsh historical cycles that have defined Russia over the past century.

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Release date

01/03/2025

Votes

5

Popularity

0.9

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Status

Released

Original title

Близкие

Language

RU

Runtime

104 min

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Pontus Kjällman

2026-10-28

⭐ 9

This is a fascinating documentary - with a bad synopsis, tag line and poster, as can be seen at the top of this page, which don't do it justice at all. Without imagining that I have talent for it or putting much effort into it, something like this might make more people interested: "Shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union two unlikely men, one from Russia and one from the USA, founded what would become one of Russia's biggest telecom companies, VimpelCom. This film looks back at that time, during the "Wild East" years of post-communist Russia, as well as the country's turbulent…

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