| Brigada | |
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| Directed by | Aleksey Sidorov |
| Written by | Igor Poroblyov Aleksey Sidorov |
| Produced by | Valery Todorovsky Anatoly Sivushov |
| Starring | Sergei Bezrukov Dmitri Dyuzhev Vladimir Vdovichenkov Pavel Maykov Yekaterina Guseva |
| Distributed by | Beta Film GmbH |
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Running time | 750 min. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Brigada (Russian: Бригада), also known as Law of the Lawless, is a Russian 15-episode crime television miniseries that debuted in 2002. It became very popular in Russia and ex-Soviet countries as well as Eastern Europe, but received criticism for positive portrayal of criminals and aestheticization of violence. The miniseries follows the story of four best friends from 1989 to 2000, and follows their rise in the world of crime from a local gang of petty thugs to a true mafia, mainly concentrating on the leader of the group, Sasha Belov, played by Sergei Bezrukov. The fifteen-part miniseries were written by Igor Porublyov and Aleksei Sidorov and were directed by Aleksei Sidorov.