Newly discharged from the army, Danila goes to his older brother - a gangster and a killer - to start a new life in St. Petersburg where he's soon situated in the criminal world and asked to kill someone. Brother- a Russian film from 1998 is based around Danila a twenty something Russian who has just come back home from army service to find a Russia where corruption and mob activity rule the state and the citizenry is engaged in the new culture of consumption and buying material goods that has consumed many societies. His brother is a gangster and a killer, and he puts Danila into this criminal world asking him to … Sanja the Bandit after a particularly vicious shootout, stumbles into the musician Oleg at the local banya. Sergei is a coward, who throws his brother to the wolves, as gangs battle for control of a market in Moscow. [Poll], ‘Big Brother 22’ episode 33 recap: Did the Veto save Christmas or Nicole on October 21? Sung Shi Won (Jung Eun Ji) and her five friends – Yoon Yoon Jae (Seo In Guk), Mo Yoo Jung (Shin So Yul), Kang Joon Hee (Hoya), Do Hak Chan (Eun Ji Won) and Bang Sung Jae (Lee Shi Un) – were friends in high school in 1997, when the K-pop and celebrity idols were gaining national popularity, and they were swept up in the adoration of their favorite K-pop and other idol stars. And you could expect either a stupid game of blind man's buffets or a truly bloody showdown with the stacks of "bluffers". Was this review helpful to you? Very good movie. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. He is arrested and brought to the local militsiya precinct. Genre. Balabanov explores the realities of life in the undercurrents of Muscovite society as people just try to survive post-Soviet society. ‘Big Brother 22’ spoilers: Who won Week 11 Head of Household competition on #BB22? Menu. It's arguably the best gangster film I have seen, along with Brother 2 & blows any Hollywood made films within this genre out of the water. I can feel the smell of the wet dusty roads, the moulded no man's land of stairways in post soviet blocks of flats and much more. On his way home, he ends up in a fight with security guards, after he accidentally walks onto the set of a music video for the band Nautilus Pompilius. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom. That's the devil. Very good movie, VERY poor edition! Home / Learn / Watch / Brother. Newly discharged from the army, Danila goes to his older brother - a gangster and a killer - to start a new life in St. Petersburg where he's soon situated in the criminal world and asked to kill someone. (as Sergey Debezhev).