Release Date: Jul 8, 1997 Wide
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Danila goes to his older brother to start a new life in Petersburg. His brother is a gangster and a killer, and he puts Danila into this criminal world asking him to kill someone. There his new life starts, he meets new people, a girl, becomes a big fan of the rock band "Nautilus Pompillius". Now he is a killer, and killing is easier than living for him. Realizing this makes him understand he is going the wrong way.
Jul 8, 1997 Wide
Nov 19, 2002
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From post-Soviet Russia, with viciousness.
Director Aleksei Balabanov's matter-of-fact depiction of his protagonist's exploits conveys the blunt harshness of post-Cold War Russia.
If anything, this slickly done gangster thriller should be taken as a political warning by the West that Russia is a wounded animal and still dangerous...
[left]Danila Bagrov (Sergej Bodrov Jr.), recently stationed with the army in Chechnya, comes home to a small town in rural Russia. Almost immediately, he gets in trouble with a movie crew filming in the area. His mother, eager for him to start working, urges him to travel to St. Petersburg to find his brother, Viktor
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