Underplayed Gems

Break Loose (2013)

Break Loose poster
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
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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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