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Brother 2 is a russe film of genre Drama directed by Aleksei Balabanov released in USA on 1 january 2000 with Sergei Bodrov, Jr.
Brother 2 (2000)
Брат 2
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 january 2000
Length 2h2
Directed by Aleksei Balabanov
OriginRussie
Themes Gangster films
Rating75%
Brother 2 (Russian: Брат 2, translit. Brat 2) a 2000 Russian film, and, in name, a sequel to 1997's Russian crime thriller Brother. The 'Russian-made gangster flick' was set about a year after the events that occurred in the first film. The movie featured use of 12 types of handguns, two types of sub-machine guns, two types of assault rifles, three types of machine guns and two types of stick grenade.
‘Our answer to James Bond and other "anti-Soviet Cinema",’ “Brother 2” was ‘ideological...playing ‘to the fears of its national audience...the first manifestation of Russia’s new snobbery towards the US,’ the Itogi weekly’s reviewer wrote. Its central character was ‘a) cute and b) clever...war creates a special kind of childish killers...The search for national identity...only leads to unwarranted xenophobia.'
Synopsis
The main hero, Danila Bagrov (Sergey Bodrov Jr.), comes to Moscow because he wants to study medicine and become a doctor. He goes to the building of TV6-MOSCOW, a local Russian TV channel, where he has been invited to appear on a Russian TV show, "In the world of people." On the show, Danila is interviewed along with his former comrades Ilya Setevoy (Kirill Pirogov) and Konstantin Gromov (Alexander Dyachenko). Danila's mother and his older brother Viktor (Viktor Sukhorukov), ex-gangster and now a policeman, see the TV-Show on their TV. Ms. Bagrova, the mother of Viktor and Danila, is unhappy with Viktor because he is drinking vodka all the time and is unable to help her. She mentions to him that his brother is on TV in Moscow, and that Viktor should drive to him and get a real job. She tells him that he should ask his brother for help. But Viktor just screws his brother, telling that his mother will be fine.Actors
Sergei Bodrov, Jr.
(Danila Bagrov)
Viktor Soukhoroukov
(Viktor Bagrov)
Sergei Makovetsky
(Valentin Belkine, directeur de la banque Nikolaev)
Gary J. Garland
(Richard Mennis)
Valdis Pelšs
(Himself)
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