Check out 1998 Russian movie "The Outskirts." Industrial drear, shaded backdrops, and eccentric characters to say the least. Also recommend, "Freeze Die Come to Life", and any other movie that has a Bela Tarr pathos.
shareAlso "Brother" by the same director, starring Sergey Bodrov, Jr. A GREAT talent who was tragically killed while making a movie in the Caucasus, when a glacier broke off and buried a village.
shareYes, I've seen Brat and Brat 2. You're right, good movies. That's news to me, Bodrovs death...very sorry to hear that. Seems like I've seen him in other Russian films but can't remember which films. Thank you for your kind reply and the sad news as well, take care.
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He makes a cameo appearance in "Sisters" (syostri) which he directed himself. It's about two half-sisters, one is the daughter of a gangster who gets out of prison, and is offered a job (criminal job) which he refuses. For revenge, the other gangster attempts to kidnap his daughters. He arranges a safe house for them, but the gangsters find out, and the girls escape on their own, and have to fend for themselves on the mean streets.
Bodrov's movies remind me of the "Bourne" movies, and I did some checking, and found out that the older sister (they are about 10 and 13) appears near the end of the final Bourne movie.
Another actor, the one who is shot in the arm during the domestic scene in Cargo, appears with a bigger part in Sisters. He also gets a good role in "The Needle", as a small-time crook, in a very funny scene.
Sorry to break the news about Sergey's death. He was a huge, huge talent, very charismatic and talented. IIRC, he's also in a movie about war in the Caucasus, called "War", or Voyna. IMHO, "Brother" is his best movie, although "Brother 2" is maybe a bit more fun with its depictions of America, which I found both flattering and humorous as an American myself.
I have to tip my hat at Russians for some great movies and airplanes.
The Brother series was very good. They're cult classics now. There was quite a bit of realism and violence in those two, but some of it was slightly over the top. While Gruz 200 basically tells it like it is (if such story indeed happened), the Brother moved slightly in the direction of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. And then Balabanov's "Zhmurki" was basically a homage to Pulp Fiction.
shareMay I also suggest "Citizen X". Captures life in the Russian provincial city of Rostov on Don following a decade of police chase after the worst serial killer in USSR's history. Actually based on a true story. Film being Hungarian does have some minor inaccuracies in it, but they still did a fascinating job.
shareThis movie turned me on, what about that one? Kek.
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