Illegal
2006, Russian. Directed by Boris Frumin & Yury Lebedev.
Seventies. The cold war in the midst of the USSR and the West are fighting hard for secret information about each other. Soviet intelligence agencies want to save their couriers from too much attention of customs officers at the Leningrad airport. These couriers deliver to the USSR important documents obtained by our scouts in Western Europe
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 16 November 2006
- Original title
- Нелегал
- Country
- Russia
- Written by
- Yuli Nikolin, Boris Frumin
- Box office
- $2.5M
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How long is Illegal?
Illegal runs 98 minutes (1h 38m).
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Illegal isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 16 November 2006. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
What movies are like Illegal?
If you liked Illegal, try What Maisie Knew, The Young One, The Courier.
Who directed Illegal?
Illegal (2006) was directed by Boris Frumin and Yury Lebedev and stars Aleksey Serebryakov, Olga Albanova, Ekaterina Reshetnikova.