Brother (1997)

Original title

Брат

Directed by

Aleksei Balabanov

Genre

drama film, crime film, neo-noir, thriller film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

15+

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 474 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young ex-conscript arrives in Saint Petersburg and gets pulled into the city's criminal underworld through his older brother. He ends up working for the local mob.

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What happens

Brother (Russian: Брат, romanized: Brat) is a 1997 Russian neo-noir crime drama film written and directed by Aleksei Balabanov. The film stars Sergei Bodrov Jr. as Danila Bagrov, a young ex-conscript who becomes embroiled with the Saint Petersburg mob through his criminal older brother. It appeared in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. After its release on VHS in June 1997, Brother unexpectedly became one of the most commercially successful Russian films of the 1990s and quickly rose to cult film status throughout Russia. Due to the film's popularity and fan demand, a sequel, Brother 2, was released in 2000. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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