The brother
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German title | The brother |
Original title | Брат |
Country of production | Russia |
original language | Russian |
Publishing year | 1997 |
length | 95 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Alexei Balabanov |
script | Alexei Balabanov |
production | Sergei Selyanov |
music | Vyacheslav Butusov |
camera | Sergei Astakhov |
cut | Marina Lipartija |
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The brother (original title: russian Брат ) is a film drama from 1997 by director Alexei Balabanow . The film is about a young man who messes with the mafia .
action
Danila comes from the family of a criminal . As soon as he is released from military service, he is involved in a fight with a film team whom he ran into. He returns to his hometown from the police station. At the urging of his mother, he decides to go to Saint Petersburg , where he not only wants to find work, but also his older brother Wiktor, who has been living there for several years.
However, the latter greets him with a loaded pistol on his temple. Danila realizes that Wiktor is no longer the “good, dear boy” that his mother wept so much. Without further ado, Danila immediately includes Danila in his business life and gives him the first order: A Chechen bandit is to be eliminated.
With the help of self-made ammunition and an improvised silencer, Danila proves deadly efficiency in carrying out the job, but is then caught in a chase across a residential complex and injured in the process. He was shot in a tram that happened to be passing by and injured one of his pursuers with a pistol shot. After a long journey, he meets Sweta, the tram driver, who suffers greatly from her boozing and beating husband. During the long recovery phase that followed, Danila is cared for by his new friend Hoffmann, whom he calls Njemez (translated "German") - a Russian-German who lives in a cemetery with other homeless people.
After Danila is back on her feet, life in St. Petersburg really gets going for him. He gets into a love triangle between Sweta and Kat, a lively, drug addict girl. He trots through the city, visits discos with Kat and takes part in a concert of his favorite music group “ Nautilus Pompilius ” with Sweta . But the other side also becomes active in the meantime: gang leader Kruglij ( Russian: Круглый roughly round head, round pear) appears through Danila's brother, Viktor, and begins to look for Danila.
background
Vyacheslav Butusov, the singer of the former Russian music group Nautilus Pompilius , plays a supporting role . The music of this group often accompanies the long scenes in the film without dialogue, for example when Danila wanders through the city of Saint Petersburg. In 2000 a sequel was released under the title Brat 2 , some of which is set in the USA.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an “ elegiac-laconic big-city western by the Russian up-and-coming director Alexej Balabanow, who skilfully orientates himself on the models of American genre films. "
Awards
- 1997 "Silver Hugo" at the Chicago International Film Festival for Best Male Actor
- 1997 Grand Prix of the Russian cinema festival Kinotawr
Web links
- The brother in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- " Брат " on the website of the film publisher Kinokompanija (Russian)
- Review from 3sat
- Criticism and today's reception on dekoder.org
Individual evidence
- ^ German version of the Internet Movie Database, accessed on July 3, 2012
- ^ The Brother in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed September 20, 2007