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Command Performance
Command Performance
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Dolph Lundgren
Screenplay by	Steve Latshaw; Dolph Lundgren
Story by	Dolph Lundgren
Produced by	Les Weldon; Danny Lerner
Starring	Dolph Lundgren; Melissa Smith; Hristo Shopov; Dave Legeno; Ida Lundgren
Cinematography	Marc Windon
Edited by	Peter Hollywood
Music by	Adam Nordén
Production; company	Nu Image
Release date	November 3, 2009;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6 million

Command Performance is a 2009 American action film starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren, also written with Steve Latshaw. The film co-stars Melissa Smith, Hristo Shopov, Dave Legeno, and Lundgren's real-life daughter Ida Lundgren in her feature film debut.

Plot

In August 1991, Communist military hard-liners attempted a coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup failed, and all its members were arrested; from the ashes of the old Soviet Union, the modern Russian Federation was born.

At the request of Russian president Alexei Petrov, whose daughters Anna and Yana are fans, pop sensation Venus performs a concert in Moscow. The concert turns bloody when armed men led by Oleg Kazov take the concertgoers hostage. It seems that Oleg has a personal vendetta against Petrov. Former biker gang member Joe, the drummer of CMF, the opening rock band, decides to fight the criminals. Back in the US, when Joe was still in the biker gang, Colombian drug dealers wanting to collect a debt went to Joe's apartment and fatally shot his brother. Joe hunted the men down and killed them, and ever since has tried to stay away from guns, because they remind him of his brother's murder.

Most of the civilians and staff, including Venus's manager and brother Enzo, are killed by Oleg's men. The sole survivors are Joe, Venus, news reporter Ali Connor, American ambassador Jim Bradley, Presidential Security Service agent Mikhail Kapista, President Petrov, and his two daughters.

It turns out that Oleg's father was Marshal Dmitri Kazov, a WWII hero in Stalingrad, and former Soviet Minister of Defence, who led the failed coup against Gorbachev in 1991. Oleg was part of the coup as well. After the coup failed, special forces raided the Kazov house; in the chaos, Dmitri killed Oleg's mother and then himself. Oleg, then a captain in the Russian army, immigrated to the United States, where he got arrested for petty crimes, and ended up returning to Russia three weeks prior to the concert. The prosecutor of Marshal Dmitri Kazov, Oleg, and other coup members in 1991 was a young Alexei Petrov, before he became the president of Russia. Oleg thus organised the attack to seek revenge on Petrov, because he blames Petrov for the special forces raid that ended in his parents' deaths; Petrov ordered the raid and followed the troops into the Kazov house.

It is up to Joe and Mikhail make their way through the arena, and bring down Oleg and his men.

Cast

Dolph Lundgren as Joe Reynolds
Melissa Smith as Angie / Venus
Hristo Shopov as President Alexei Petrov
Dave Legeno as Oleg Kazov
Clement von Franckenstein as Ambassador Jim Bradley
James Chalke as Vladimir
Zahary Baharov as Mikhail Kapista
Ivaylo Geraskov as Leonid Gordov
Shelly Varod as Ali Connor
Katarzyna Wolejnio as Maj. Pavlikova
Ida Lundgren as Anna Petrova
Robin Dobson as Yana Petrova
Raicho Vasilev as Anton
Slavi Slavov as Capt. Simenov
Naum Shopov as Peter
Atanas Srebrev as Enzo
Vladimir Kolev as Nikolai
Harry Anichkin as Gen. Voroshilov
Nikolai Iliev as Aide
Anna Kulinova as Bartender
Darin Angelov as Cameraman
Dejan Kamenov as Vasily
Rene Shindarov as Young Oleg Kazov
Nadejda Ivanova as Pretty Woman
Nikolai Stanoev as Ali's Soundman
Yulian Vergov as Command Aide
Krasimir Todorov as D-2 Cmf
Yavor Alexandrov as D-2 Cmf
Alexander Obretenov as D-2 Cmf
Desislav Semerdjiev as D-2 Cmf
Dimitar Karnev as D-2 Cmf
Velislav Pavlov as Merc # 1
Rosen Kovachev as Merc # 2
Dimo Dimov as Merc # 3
Tihomir Tenev as Merc # 4
Lazar Nikolov as Merc # 5
Goran Ganchev as Merc # 6
Pasha as Suit # 1
Mark Coolidge Johnson as Suit # 2
Les Weldon as Suit # 3
Ivaylo Spasimirov as Young President Petrov (uncredited)
Dimiter Doichinov as Terrorist (uncredited)
Valentin Ganev as Secretary (uncredited)
Niki Iliev as Aide (uncredited)
Andrey Kovalev as 'Pilgrim' lead singer (uncredited)
Kathryn Le as Stage Manager (uncredited)
Roselbel Rafferr as Rock Girl (uncredited)
Irson Kudikova as Irson (uncredited)

Production

Filming took place between August and September 2008 in Sofia, Bulgaria and Moscow, Russia.^{[citation needed]}

Dolph Lundgren wanted to use his drumming skills on-screen, and the story was inspired by a concert Madonna did for Russian President Vladimir Putin.^[1]

This movie features the songs "Breakdown" and "Girl" ("6" on the album version) from the band D2, Lost In Love from Melissa Smith, "Ne Gasite Svechu / Keep The Candle Burning" from Andrey Kovalev^[2] and "September Rain" from Irson Kudikova.