Brother Браᴛ | |
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Directed by | Aleksei Balabanov |
Written by | Aleksei Balabanov |
Produced by | Sergei Selyanov |
Starring | Sergei Bodrov, Jr. Viktor Sukhorukov Yury Kuznetsov |
Music by | Vyacheslav Butusov |
Production company | CTB Film Company |
Distributed by | Kino International Corp. |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Budget | $10,000[1] |
Box office | $1.4 million |
Brother (Russian: Брат, translit. Brat) is a 1997 Russian neo-noir crime drama film written and directed by Aleksei Balabanov. The film stars Sergei Bodrov Jr. as Danila Bagrov, a young ex-conscript who becomes embroiled with the Saint Petersburg mob through his criminal older brother. It appeared in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
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.