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Brother

Brat

Russia

1997

99 Min
Color
1.66:1
Russian, English
Subtitled in English
Audio in Russian
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DIR Aleksey Balabanov

PROD Sergei Selyanov

SCR Aleksey Balabanov

DP Sergei Astakhov

CAST Sergei Bodrov Jr., Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova, Yuriy Kuznetsov

ED Marina Lipartiya

PROD DES Vladimir Kartashov

MUSIC Vyacheslav Butusov

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Karlovy Vary (Competition), Mill Valley, Chicago (Competition): Best Actor, AFI FEST (World Cinema), Toronto, London, Rotterdam (Main Programme)

Synopsis

Danita Bragov comes back home after serving two years in the army. But he is not satisfied with his life in the provincial small town. He leaves for St. Petersburg where his elder brother has been very successful in business for the last few years. Danila finds his brother who turns out to be a contract killer. –Cannes Film Festival

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Aleksey Balabanov

Aleksei Balabanov was born on February 25, 1959 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). In 1981 he graduated from Translation Faculty of Gorky Teachers’ Training University. From 1983 to 1987 Alexei worked as an assistant of a film director at Sverdlovsk film studio. Later Balabanov studied at the experimental course “Authors’ Cinema” of the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, graduating in 1990.

Balabanov started his creative career in “big cinema” in 1991 with directing his first full-length feature Shchastlivyye dni (Happy Days) after his own script. In the same year he became the co-author of the script Pogranichniy Conflict (Frontier Conflict) by the young film director Nadezhda Khvorova. In 1992 Aleksei Balabanov together with producers Sergei Selyanov and Vasily Grigor’ev established the STV Film Company, which later participated in creation of almost all of his films.

In 1994 the film director released Zamok (The Castle) after the famous novel by Frantz… read more

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Christopher Edward Campbell

23May12

I'd been meaning to watch this film for several years and I completely forgot about it until seeing it here on mubi. Probably one of the best Russian gangster films ever made. Sad to hear that Sergei Bodrov Jr. has since passed, an amazing talent.

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LaHaine

31Mar12

Just downright gritty gangster flick about a soilder who turns to the criminal life. Great performance from Bodrov jnr (sadly passe away). The sequel loses the edge and grittness of this film but is well worth the watch even though Bodrov Jnr is nowhere near as good in the sequel as he is here.

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Justin Oakey

10Oct11

A charming Soviet take on the American gangster-crime movie. Bleak, pallid shots of Saint Petersburg paint a very unique atmosphere for this story. The environments and blasé characters challenges whether the violence and corruption is understood and acceptable, or still shocking and brutal.

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Barabanchik

27Sep11

Best Russian film of the 90's. Gangster realism that only a Russian director could make. Great soundtrack too.

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By Igor Stanic on July 29, 2009

This is start up film in the Brother series, and also a role model for the russian transition anti hero.Danila have served the army, like girls, like music, hate chechens, hate bullies ,and hate someone…  read review

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