Treasure Raiders
Treasure Raiders is a 2007 independently-produced treasure-hunt film, directed by Brent Huff and written by Alexander Izotov and Alexey Overchuk, starring Steven Brand and well-known actors David Carradine, Sherilyn Fenn and Russian action star Alexander Nevsky. The film was released by Maverick Entertainment Group and is a Czar Pictures/Parliament World Group/Lightning Entertainment co-production.
Plot
A Russian street racing star named Wolf (Nevsky)---who also happens to be the leader of an anti-illegal drug vigilante group---meets his match in a sly American archeology professor named Michael Nazzaro who has developed a liking for drag racing on Moscow's streets in order to follow Wolf. The professor, a West Pointer and the descendant of a Templar knight, is in possession of a 16th-century book passed on to him through generations in his family, and is now interested in the Templar medallion in Wolf's possession. The medallion is the professor's key to decoding a name in another Templar book he had come to Moscow to find, a copy of the Gospel of Jacques de Molay. Having made some wealth from an archeological find in Colombia prior to coming to Moscow, the professor offers to bet $50,000 for the medallion in a drag race with Wolf. It turns out Wolf is a likely Russian descendant of a Templar knight himself. Although the professor fails to win the medallion, Wolf joins him in his quest to find the book after a Colombian drug cartel and Russian mafia alliance goes after him. With time, police, and the mafia against them, will they find the treasure before it is too late? [1]
Cast
- Alexander Nevsky ... Wolf
- Steven Brand ... Michael Nazzaro
- David Carradine ... Pierre
- Sherilyn Fenn ... Lena
- Robert Madrid ... Dr. Pablo Ramirez
- Andrew Divoff ... Cronin
- William Shockley ... Beekeeper
- Olga Rodionova ... Masha Bolkov
- Albert Filozov ... Curator
- Maksim Konovalov ... Bolt (as Maxim Konovalov)
- Maksim Pokrovsky ... Gorinych (as Max Pokrovsky)
- Yegor Pozenko ... Igor (as Egor Pazenko)
- Stanislav Kucher ... Officer Petrov
- Ekaterina Ryndenkova ... Lida
- Francesca Carlin ... Officer Tzyu (as Franceska Carlin)
Achievements
- Treasure Raiders was featured on the cover of VARIETY (Circulation: 35,000)
- The Treasure Raiders™ trailer has over 12,000 views on Youtube