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After its release on VHS in June 1997, Brother unexpectedly became one of the most commercially successful Russian films of the 1990s and quickly rose to cult film status throughout Russia. Due to the film's popularity and fan demand, a sequel, Brother 2, was released in 2000.
Danila Bagrov (Sergei Bodrov Jr.), a recently discharged Chechen War veteran, is insisted by his mother that he travel to Saint Petersburg to seek out his successful older brother Viktor, whom his mother is confident will help him make a living. He does, and there he befriends Kat, an energetic drug addict, and "The German" Hoffman, a homeless street vendor whom Danila helps after a thug attempts to extort him.
Unbeknown to their mother, Viktor is an accomplished hitman who goes by the street name "The Tatar", working for a St. Petersburg mafia boss called "Krugliy" (Russian for "round"), His latest target is "The Chechen", a Chechen mafia boss who was recently released from prison. Krugliy, who is unhappy with the amount of money that Viktor demanded for the hit, orders his thugs to watch The Chechen, so that he can kill The Tatar to avoid paying him.
Danila eventually meets up with Viktor. To avoid exposure, Viktor passes his assignment to his brother, gives him money to settle into the city, and then lies to him that the Chechen has been extorting from him, asking Danila to perform the hit, and he agrees. While settling in, Danila boards a public bus and when an Armenian man refuses to pay the fare, Danila steps in and forces him to pay at gunpoint. Danila makes a pipe bomb and blows up The Chechen, and Krugliy's thugs spot and chase him, but he manages to escape by jumping into a tram and killing one of the mobsters, the tram driven by a woman named Sveta.
Meanwhile, Krugliy is angry, and decides to draw The Tatar into a combined raid. Viktor, again suspecting a trap, passes the job to Danila once more. The two thugs raid the apartment, but their main target is away. While they wait, in an apartment on the floor above, a party is taking place. A young radio director, Stephan, mistakes the raided flat for the party flat and is almost killed by the thugs, who take him captive. There is a party in a different apartment with members of Nautilus Pompilius, and lead singer Vyacheslav Butusov mistakes this apartment for the one and is turned away by Danila. Bored of the waiting, Danila decides to go to the party above. Some time afterward, he comes back to find the thugs killed their primary target and a hostage, and are about to do the same with Stephan, but Danila kills them.
Krugliy, decides to track Danila and intercepts Sveta's tram. They later raid her apartment, where his men beat and rape her, and learn his phone number, as well as his address. A henchman nicknamed "Mole" ambushes Danila near his apartment building, but Danila manages to kill him, Danila's CD player stopping Mole's bullet. Danila travels to Sveta's house and is shocked.
At the same time, Krugliy raids Viktor's apartment and forces him to call Danila at gunpoint, urging him to come over. Realizing the depth of the situation, Danila goes back to the communal room that he was renting and buys a shotgun from his landlord. He modifies the shells from birdshot rounds to cut nails. At Viktor's apartment, he takes a mobster hostage and kills Krugliy and two of his henchmen and tells the surviving thug to warn the rest of the gang that he will kill anyone who hurts his brother.
Danila forgives Viktor and gives him some of the money from Krugliy's suitcase, telling him to return home and to work for the militsiya. Before leaving for Moscow, he visits Sveta, and upon finding her husband beating her, he shoots him in his leg before leaving, to which Sveta says she doesn't love him anymore for such an action. He then says goodbye to Hoffman and Kat, before hitching a ride to Moscow on a passing truck.
According to director Aleksei Balabanov, the concept of Brother was born from an old plan to make a film about bandits and musicians, since he often talked to both. In this concept, music was to play a leading role. Looking for a suitable soundtrack, Balabanov chose the group Nautilus Pompilius, since he had been friends with vocalist Vyacheslav Butusov since they both lived in Sverdlovsk.[3]
The film was shot in thirty-one days. According to producer Sergei Selyanov, about 10,000 US dollars were spent on filming.[5] Many actors worked for a small fee or for free. According to Svetlana Pismichenko, she was compensated a thousand dollars for her role; for her role, she was specially trained to drive a tram. The knit sweater worn by Danila was bought by the artist Nadezhda Vasilyeva at a flea market for less than forty rubles.[6] In the last scene, the truck driver who picked up Danila was played by the film's cameraman Sergei Astakhov.[7] The Nautilus Pompilius that Sveta and Danila attend was actually a concert of the band Chizh & Co. According to Pismichenko, drunken fans at the concert almost trampled over her and Bodrov in the crowd.[8]
According to producer Sergei Selyanov, one of the main themes of Brother was to document the transition from the "communal system of life" under socialism to the "individual responsibility" of capitalism. He noted that "in the 1990s, the individual had a chance to realize himself to the fullest" and that even family ties lost meaning. Balabanov wanted to show the importance and value of lost connections, yet Danila single-handedly confronted all the obstacles in the world around him.[5]
One amazing thread sticks out from the script of Brother, and by pulling it, almost half of Balabanov's work can be unraveled. Danila's "mature" girlfriend, the well-worn tram driver, turns out to be an avid bottom here: she likes to be tortured and she keeps in the closet - and readily uses on herself - almost the entire arsenal of SM. Which, on the one hand, ties her together (forgive me this pun) with both the "porn divas" from Freaks and the daughter of the district committee secretary from Cargo 200, and on the other, in purely Fassbinder style, turns her into the long-suffering Mother Russia! Exactly so, that is, no more, but no less.
Film critic Anton Dolin describes Danila as "a person who has fallen out of context, living in a time of great change, but who has ceased to feel History." In his opinion, Danila needs relatives and friends, but he either doesn't find them or he doesn't find in them what he was looking for.[10]
Brother is either a tragedy or a comedy of the loneliness of a hero who dreamed of loved ones, but ended up with his pistol in the Lutheran cemetery in the company of a German and a director who is scared to death of him. He seems to have a presentiment that new times are about to come, in which there will be no place left for either the author or the actor. And the hero will be appropriated and called "brother" by the trivial thieves from Krugly's gang - those who unsuccessfully tried to overthrow him in the film. In fact, Danila Bagrov did not have any brothers. He was the only one.
The need for heroes always exists, starting from epics and fairy tales. What is a hero? This is the main horse in the trio. That dark horse that pushes this chariot, cart, wheelbarrow, britzka. Do we have one today? No. A hero must be born. Not through ideology, but through resistance, through a clash of positions.
Danila Bagrov served his fatherland on a certain front, then returned and decided to help his brother. Each of us has such a mixed up contradiction of good, evil, love, hatred, strength and weakness. In this contradiction, we must find a hero who will unite the weak and the strong - and say: "Yes, you can live with this! And not get lost, and get rich, and be strong, and be saved."
Journalist and critic Yuri Saprykin defined Danila's personality as a blank slate, which contains the names of his closest relatives, several common moral truths ("the weak must be protected"), several innate social instincts ("I don't like Jews very much") and the name of his favorite band ("Nautilus Pompilius"). Saprykin characterizes the Bagrov's calm shooting as "the fastest movement towards the goal, in which all ethical corners are cut; the simplest solution for any problem, he is like a bullet that flies in a straight line."[12]
Danila aims at a businessman with the same readiness as at an ordinary bandit, and at a negligent husband; with the same thoughtless readiness he would shoot a random passer-by if he were in the line of the bullet. Class enmity is absent in his simple value grid, where the only important division is friends and foes, and except for the Tatar, who is always a friend because he is a brother, this division is always established by chance, according to the situation.
The domestic premiere took place at the St. Petersburg Cinema House in 1997. After attending the premiere, critic Sergei Dobrotvorsky said that Brother would become "the main event of the country."[14] The film was released on VHS in June 1997.[citation needed] It premiered on television on 12 December 1997 on the NTV channel.[15]
Following the film's success, Balabanov initially planned to make two sequels: the second instalment was to take place in Moscow and the third in United States. During the writing phase, however, he abandoned this idea and combined the second and third parts into a single sequel instead.[21] Brother 2 is notable for having a significantly higher budget, placing more emphasis on action sequences, and being set in Moscow and Chicago.
In September 2022, the publishing house Bubble Comics released a comic collection, Brother: 25 years [ru], for the 25th anniversary of the film. The collection contains stories about Bagrov and other characters, some from the films and some new. One of the artists of the project is Andrey Vasin, who worked on the comics Igor Grom [ru] and Besoboy [ru].[22]
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