Break Loose (2013)

Original title

Восьмёрка

Directed by

Alexei Uchitel

Genre

drama film, action film, crime film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

18A

Rating

4.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young men in a small Russian town drive around in a Lada Samara and get caught up in crime and violence. The story follows their rough lives and the dangerous choices they make.

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What happens

Break Loose (also known as Breaking Loose; Russian: Восьмёрка, literally "The Eight", a nickname for the Lada Samara model VAZ-2108) is a 2013 Russian crime drama film directed by Alexei Uchitel. It is based on the novella The Eight by Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin, who also appears in a cameo role in the film. The film premiered in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Its Russian premiere took place at the 2nd National Debut Film Festival "Dvizhenie" in Omsk in April 2014, where it opened the festival. The film's tagline was "Love without brakes". In July 2014, in the context of the War in Donbas, the state film agency of Ukraine banned Break Loose along with a number of other Russian films deemed to be "glorifying the Russian army and security forces". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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