Aleksey BALABANOV
Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ
Alekseï BALABANOV
Russia, 1997, 96mn 
Colour, fiction
Brother
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Брат

 

 Le Frère

 Brat

 
Directed by : Aleksey BALABANOV (Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksey BALABANOV (Алексей БАЛАБАНОВ)
 
Cast
Sergey BODROV (jr.) (Сергей БОДРОВ (мл.))
Vyacheslav BUTUSOV (Вячеслав БУТУСОВ)
Sergey DEBIZHEV (Сергей ДЕБИЖЕВ)
Andrey KRASKO (Андрей КРАСКО)
Yuri KUZNETSOV (Юрий КУЗНЕЦОВ)
Igor LIFANOV (Игорь ЛИФАНОВ)
Sergey MURZIN (Сергей МУРЗИН)
Svetlana PISMICHENKO (Светлана ПИСЬМИЧЕНКО)
Viktor SUKHORUKOV (Виктор СУХОРУКОВ)
Mariya ZHUKOVA (Мария ЖУКОВА)
Anatoli ZHURAVLYOV (Анатолий ЖУРАВЛЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Sergey ASTAKHOV (Сергей АСТАХОВ)
Production design : Vladimir KARTASHOV (Владимир КАРТАШОВ), Nadezhda VASILYEVA (Надежда ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Music : Vyacheslav BUTUSOV (Вячеслав БУТУСОВ)
Sound : Maksim BELOVOLOV (Максим БЕЛОВОЛОВ)
Editing : Tamara LIPARTIA (Тамара ЛИПАРТИЯ)
Produced by : Sergey SELIANOV (Сергей СЕЛЬЯНОВ)
Production : CTB
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev.media

Awards :
First prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1997
Best actor Sergey BODROV (jr.) , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1997
Prix spécial du jury à Turin, 1997
Médaille d'or à Trieste, 1997
Prix de la critique internationale (FIPRESCI) à Kotbus,

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico
Editor : Image Entertainment

Plot synopsis
Danila Bagrov, just demobbed from the army, returns to his quiet, provincial home town. But life is monotonous and boring in this Russian backwoods, so he is heading for faraway Petersburg, to his elder brother who, as he heard, is doing quite well there and might help his darling little brother to start a new life. On his arrival in Petersburg, Danila discovers that his brother is indeed doing well, having mastered the profession of... a contract killer. And Danila decides to follow suit.
Source : www.ruscico.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
«Плохие русские. Кино от Брата до Слова пацана», Anton DOLIN, Medusa Project, 2024
Антон Долин. Брат, Бригада, Ночной дозор, Ёлки, Груз 200 и др. Как кино помогло Путину?, Anton DOLIN, Youtube.com, 2024
«После Брата все решили, что в 90-е так ходили» [«Après Le Frère tout le monde a décidé que c'était ainsi qu'il fallait s'habiller dans les années 90»], Interview, kommersant.ru, 2023
Dix grands films russes et soviétiques des années 1990, Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Tollé en Ukraine autour du film Le Frère, eurotopics.net, 2021
21+ Алексей Балабанов. «Найти своих и успокоиться», Herr_master, herr-master.livejournal.com, 2020
RUSSIA BEYOND : Six films sombres d’Alexeï Balabanov à voir absolument, Oleg EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2018
10 movies that define Russian cinema, Yulia SHAMPOROVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2017
Кино в Петербурге. Петербург в кино, Anna KOVALOVA, seance.ru, 2011
Le cinéma russe, vingt-cinq ans déjà..., Marilyne FELLOUS, kinoglaz.fr, 2010
90-е. Кино, которое мы потеряли, Larisa MALUKOVA, Зебра Е ; 2007 г., 2007
Le cinéma des années 1990-2000. Images dispersées, Françoise NAVAILH, Russie, peuples et civilisations, La découverte, 2005
Даниил Дондурей: "Не брат я тебе, гнида..." [О фильме Брат], Daniil DONDUREY, Искусство кино, 4, 1998
Плач по пионеру, или Немецкое слово «Яблокитай», Yevgeni MARGOLIT, old.kinoart.ru, 1998
Le film de genre américain dans le cinéma post-communiste : «le Mafiosi Thriller», Christina STOJANOVA, Ciné-Bulles, vol. 17, n° 2,, 1998
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Habiller le rêve et le réel. Nadejda Vasilieva - L'art du costume au cinéma, Paris (France), 2024
- Famous Actresses and Actors, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Festival of new Russian cinema "Gorky fest", Nizhniy Novgorod (Russia), 2024
- Russian auteur cinema festival “Winter”, Moscow (Russia), 2022
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2021
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2019
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2019
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2019
- Days of Russian cinema, Aix les Bains (France), 2018
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2018
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2017
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2016
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2016
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2013
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2010
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2007
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2003
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1997
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1997
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1997