A glamorous Russian female spy - dubbed Agent 90-60-90 - is Russia's answer to James Bond.
EDINBURGH: A glamorous Russian female spy - dubbed Agent 90-60-90 - is Russia's answer to James Bond.
The movie Beautiful, starring popular Russian actress Anastacia Zavorotnyuk, is set for release this autumn - at the same time as Daniel Craig makes his debut as 007 in Casino Royale.
The agent is named Agent 90-60-90 ostensibly, as a reference to her 'vital statistics' in centimetres.
In the film, Zavorotnyuk travels across the globe in order to save the motherland and the world from international terrorism, The Scotsman reported.
She had to undergo a gruelling two-month military training course to familiarise with the weapons used in the film, including Kalashnikov assault rifles, grenade launchers, and even heavy artillery.
The Russian-language film also features Zavorotnyuk piloting a MiG fighter and has scenes set in Russia, Ukraine, France, Italy, Norway, Cuba and Malaysia.
The enemy in the film is the spectre of international terrorism and its threat to the motherland.
The producers have so far refused to say exactly whether this takes the form of Islamic terrorism or is modelled on the more oddball modern Bond villains who usually are not aligned with any particular country, the report said.
Simon Windor, whose book The Man Who Saved Britain argues that the James Bond series was important for the post-war Britain's self-image, said: "I think a Russian James Bond would work brilliantly and I think you have many parallels between Britain and Russia which will make a Russian Bond work."
"Both countries lost an empire and have had to cope with not being anything like as important as they once thought they were. Both countries have a spying and military heritage, and both feel they have a mission to civilise the world."
He added: "Whether a female Bond would work is another question. It's an interesting idea. It partially depends on whether you think the Halle Berry character in Die Another Day worked - I'm not sure. But the idea that such huge threats to the world would be tackled by sending one British bloke in is no more absurd that having a Russian girl save the world."
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