Boomerang

Boomerang

★ 9.0IMDb Score
Released:1981-05-25
Duration:29 min
Country:Soviet Union
Director:Viktor Prokhorov
Actors:Bob Chuprov-Tsymba, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Pauls Butkevics, Algimantas Masiulis, Laimonas Noreika
Production:Mosfilm

Overview:

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a private clinic, he is transplanted with the brain of Sheriff Maclain, who died in a car accident. While remaining black, he begins to think like a racist Maclain.

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