Russia,
2005, 111 min
Directed by:
Aleksey BalabanovScreenplay:
Aleksey BalabanovCast:
Aleksey Panin, Andrey Panin, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Makovetskiy, Aleksey Serebryakov, Andrey Merzlikin, Viktor Bychkov (more)Plots(1)
This ferocious farce by Aleksei Balabanov suggests that on the mean free-market streets of modern day Russia, the only real liberty is the freedom to kill. Trigger-happy sibling assassins Simon (Dmitri Dyuzhev) and Sergei (Aleksei Panin) work as errand boys for Mikhailovich (Nikita Mikhalkov), the sadistic kingpin of a provincial Russian town. But after brians Sergei and brawn Simon bungle a crucial drug deal, and a crooked cop's death squad grabs their briefcase of hell powder heroin, Mikhailovich's patience wears thin. The brothers' life and death quest to reclaim their stash initiates a messy turf war. (official distributor synopsis)
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