Danila Bagrov returns to his native town after two years in the Army. But life of the Russian province does not suite him anymore and he desires to move to St. Petersburg where his elder brother recently started to prosper. Danila finds his brother. But his brother appears to be a professional killer.
Biography
film director
Alexej Balabanov
Alexej Balabanov (Sverdlovsk, Urals, 1959) graduated from the Foreign Languages college in Gorky. After two years in the Soviet Air Force he worked as a first assistant director in documentaries on Sverdlovsk film studio for a few years. Then he did a scriptwriting and directing course in Moscow that allowed him to make two documentaries. In 1990 he moved to St. Petersburg where directed his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Happy Days (1991), The Castle (1994), Dofim (cm, 1995), Brat (Brother, 1997).
Cast
& Credits
Director of photography: Sergei Astakhov.
Art director: Vladimir Kartagov.
Editor: Marina Lipartija.
Music: Slava Butusov.
Sound: Maxirn Belovolov.
Cast and characters: Sergei Bodrov jr. (Danila), Viktor Suhorukov (il fratello), Svetlana Pismichenko (Sveta), Marina Zhukova (Kat), Juri Kuznetzov (German), Slava Butusov (Butusov).
Producer: Sergej Selianov.
Production company: STW Film Company, 10 Kamennoostrovsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, tel +7-8122370322, fax +7~812-2370317 - GosKino of Russia, Gnezdnikovskij 7,129226 Moscow, Russia, tel. +7-95-2294823, fax +795-2292248.
Foreign sales agent: Alexej Maximovic Ltd., 8 Sergej Eisenstein Street, 129226 Moscow, Russia, tel. +7-95-1812091, fax +7-95-1812514.