Black Lightning

You drive a beater around Moscow. It gets you to class and back. But one day the old Volga bursts into flight, and then you're fighting crime. A shady mogul wants the skies for himself. Director Kiselev's superhero origin story arrived as Russia's answer to a wave of Western comic adaptations. It leaves viewers with pure, weightless fun.

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Dmitry Kiselev directed Black Lightning in 2009. See Dmitry Kiselev's full filmography, where to start with Dmitry Kiselev, or where to go after you've seen everything by Dmitry Kiselev.

Black Lightning was released in 2009 (RU original-language production), with a runtime of 102 minutes.