Brat [videorecording]= Brother Aleksei Balabanov

By:

Aleksei Balabanov

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Material type: Film

FilmLanguage: Russian Summary language: English Original language: Russian Subtitle language: English Publication details: Russia Kino International CTB Film Company Gorky Film Studios Roskomkino 2007Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:

Brother

Uniform titles:

Brother

LOC classification:

PN1997 .B738 1997

Summary: From case cover: Russia's biggest box office hit in 1997, Aleksei Balabanov's (Dead Man's Bluff) Brother is an American-style gangster flick mixed with a pointed social consciousness. World cinema has shown us views of raw, impoverished post-Soviet Russia; Brother shows it with stark gunplay and one captivating lead performance. Danila (Sergei Bodrov, Jr.) returns from army service to a St. Petersburg transformed into a casual culture high on music and consumerism. The chaotic atmosphere, carefully depicted by Balabanov's moody camerawork, easily invites the smug, belligerent Danila into a world of crime. Soon the youth is accompanying his brother Viktor, a contract killer for the Russian underworld, on violent escapades where wads of cash and a well-gripped gun are the ultimate symbols of power. Bodrov's cynical, brutal performance, reminiscent of tough-guy roles from countless Hollywood mob movies, further conveys the sense that 1990's St. Petersburg is not a far cry from from the blood-strewn Chicago of the late 1920s. And like Bogart and Cagney, Bodrov makes his morally challenged hero strangely likeable. By combining classic motifs of lawlessness with revelatory scenes of a newly borne Eastern Europe, Brother becomes at once a sardonic movie thriller and a fiercely patriotic political statement.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A	PN1997 .B738 1997	Available	Russian audio. Optional English subtitles.		000444

From case cover:
Russia's biggest box office hit in 1997, Aleksei Balabanov's (Dead Man's Bluff) Brother is an American-style gangster flick mixed with a pointed social consciousness. World cinema has shown us views of raw, impoverished post-Soviet Russia; Brother shows it with stark gunplay and one captivating lead performance.

Danila (Sergei Bodrov, Jr.) returns from army service to a St. Petersburg transformed into a casual culture high on music and consumerism. The chaotic atmosphere, carefully depicted by Balabanov's moody camerawork, easily invites the smug, belligerent Danila into a world of crime. Soon the youth is accompanying his brother Viktor, a contract killer for the Russian underworld, on violent escapades where wads of cash and a well-gripped gun are the ultimate symbols of power. Bodrov's cynical, brutal performance, reminiscent of tough-guy roles from countless Hollywood mob movies, further conveys the sense that 1990's St. Petersburg is not a far cry from from the blood-strewn Chicago of the late 1920s. And like Bogart and Cagney, Bodrov makes his morally challenged hero strangely likeable.

By combining classic motifs of lawlessness with revelatory scenes of a newly borne Eastern Europe, Brother becomes at once a sardonic movie thriller and a fiercely patriotic political statement.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; NTSC; Region 1; 1.66:1 as 4:3 fullscreen.

Russian audio. Optional English subtitles.

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