Brother 2
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| Directed by | Aleksei Balabanov |
| Produced by | Sergei Selyanov |
| Written by | Aleksei Balabanov |
| Starring | Sergei Bodrov Jr. and Viktor Sukhorukov |
| Distributed by | Kinokompaniya CTB |
| Release date(s) | 2000 |
| Running time | 122 min. |
| Language | Russian and English |
| Budget | $1,500,000 |
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Brother 2 (Russian: Брат 2, Brat 2) (2000) is the sequel to 1997 film Brother. It takes place about a year after the events that occurred in that film.
In this film we see Danila, played once again by Sergei Bodrov Jr. head to the
In America he meets a Russian prostitute named Marylin (aka Dasha) who he decides to help. Danila rescues Marylin from her black pimp and his crew. It should be mentioned that Danila seems to be very cruel when saving Marylin, first he was beaten by the pimp of Marylin, so the second time he returned with a gun and shot the pimp and his crew. Danila recites a children's poem he has heard in the beginning of the movie, while loading his gun and shooting . This creates a strong contrast with the pimp and his crew swearing all the way up the ladder to the Marylin's apartment to meet their death. He settles the business by assassinating the businessman along with a hefty number of henchmen and heads back to Russia with Marylin. His brother remains in America, and heads to prison happily, stating that he is finally home.
Plot Synopsis
The film opens with Danila on a television show with his friend's twin brother, a hockey player. Due to a miscommunication between mobsters watching the movie, a hit is placed on the hockey player and he is shot to death. Danila is spotted by a pop singer and she takes him back to her apartment. The next morning, after explaining he isn't a fan of pop music, he goes to meet his friend's brother. The singer (played by real-life pop singer Irina Saltykova) becomes comic relief throughout the film.
Danila finds him dead in his apartment and checks his belongings. Seeking revenge, he seeks the assistance of his brother Viktor, now a police officer (a reversal from the first film). Together they go to the home of "the fascist", an apparent Nazi sympathizer, to pick up weapons. Here Viktor picks up a Maxima machine gun alongside other weapons.
After an extended car chase, Viktor uses the weapon to destroy their pursuers.
The two head to America in the hope of getting back the deceased's owed money to his brother. They end up in two separate locations: Viktor in Chicago, Danila in New York, where he meets up with a Russian Jew who agrees to sell Danila a used car. The car, after an attempt to go to Chicago, burns out; Danila is forced to hitchhike, where he gets a ride from a trucker.
Passing through Chicago's downtown, Danila spots Dasha (Marilyn), a prostitute with Russian features and communicates with her in Russian. Realizing he may have made a connection, he attempts to communicate further, but her pimp pulls her away and beats her. Shocked by the pimp's ferocity, Danila attempts to jump in, but the truck driver pulls him away.
Once in Chicago, Danila goes finds the prostitute and attempts to contact her, for which he gets savagely beaten. The cops let him go on the basis of recognizance (Danila claims to be a doctor visiting for the scenery) and he gets revenge by tricking the same group who beat him up into selling him weapons, which he steals by subterfuge. Their is an element of racial tension throughout the scenes.
After escaping, the pair (Dasha is now forced to assist Danila for her own safety) find Viktor, who has made a name for himself pretending to be a member of the Russian mafia. He explains his preference for America, while Danila and Dasha disagree. Dasha explains she married an American but that he left her, and broke with no ability to communicate, she begins to sell herself. Danila argues that her fate can't be any worse in Russia than it is currently.
Finally, Danila meets up with the American corporate head of the criminal syndicate who was doing business with the Russian mafia, and menaces him into paying his debts to the deceased's brother.
After the money has been returned to the hockey player, Danila and Dasha board a plane to Russia; Dasha is told that as her visa is long expired, she would not be able to return to America. She orders a vodka on the plane, a symbolic healing for the trauma she has suffered as a prostitute.
Production
Some of the songs played in the film where great hits in Russia in 90s). Sergei Bodrov Jr. died two years after this movie was released. His car was covered by a glacier slide while he was shooting a movie in the North Caucasus region of Karmadon Canyon in Russia.
External links
- Brother-2 at the Internet Movie Database
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