World Cinema AFI FEST 1997

BROTHER (BRAT)
(Russia, 1996 96 min. RUSSIAN)
Tuesday, October 28
Wednesday, October 29
2:00 pm
4:00 pm
10/28 MANN'S CHINESE
10/29 LAEMMLE'S MONICA
BROTHER (BRAT)



Danila Bagrov (brilliantly portrayed by Sergei Bodrov of PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS) returns home after two years in the army. Dissatisfied with 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. But he soon learns the truth about his brother, who is a contract killer. One of the first films to emerge from Russia about the Mafia situation, this dark, fast-paced drama charts territory more common to the American anti-hero films of the 70s, and does it with exceptional panache.


DIR Alexei Balabanov PROD Sergei Seclianov SCR Alexei Balabanov DP Sergi Astakov ED Marina Lipartia CAST Sergei Bodrov, Victor Suchorukov, Svetlana Pismitchenko, Maria Zhukova, Yury Kuznetsov, Slava Butusov

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:

  • Happy Days (1991)
  • The Castle (1994)
  • Brother (1997)












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