Smoke a Gold Cig
June 23, 2010 10:03 PM   Subscribe

Looking for the title of a foreign (Russian?) film, probably filmed mid-late 90s. What I remember of the plot: gold(?) smuggling operation, with the gold being smuggled in cigarette packs; I believe a factory or power plant was central to the plot somehow; the film was in black & white until about 2/3 through the movie, when in a crucial scene a gold cigarette was used to connect a circuit, flipping on the lights in the power plant and switching the film over to color. Help?
posted by Saxon Kane to Media & Arts (5 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
This IMDB keyword might help.
posted by griphus at 11:01 PM on June 23, 2010


Best answer: Is it Darkness in Tallinn? It's listed on imdb as City Unplugged.

"The film is predominantly in eerie, stylish black and white...the last then minutes are suffused with colour....the plot revolves around a gang of Russian criminals who hatch a plan to hijack the gold and smuggle it out of Tallinn in the form of cigarettes...."
posted by iconomy at 7:21 AM on June 24, 2010 [1 favorite]


On imdb: "....beautiful black and white photography in the first part which all of a sudden becomes coloured when light is finally restored in town..."
posted by iconomy at 7:24 AM on June 24, 2010


This movie review for City Unplugged further backs the connection.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:47 AM on June 24, 2010


Response by poster: Yep! That's it.
posted by Saxon Kane at 11:56 AM on June 24, 2010


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