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)
(more)Cast
![Aleksey Panin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/605/158605226_b140db.jpg)
Aleksey Panin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
DMB (2000)
V avgustě 44-go (2001)
Granica. Tajožnyj roman (2001) (series)
![Andrey Panin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279291_d83a37.jpg)
Andrey Panin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Mummy (1999)
Nežnyj vozrast (2000)
![Dmitriy Dyuzhev](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/099/533/99533842_bd1fdf.jpg)
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Mamy (2012)
The Island (2006)
Travelling with Pets (2007)
![Nikita Mikhalkov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269803_4a1ef3.jpg)
Nikita Mikhalkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
A Cruel Romance (1984)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
![Sergey Makovetskiy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/294/158294306_6b24c1.jpg)
Sergey Makovetskiy
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Tri bogatyrya na dalnikh beregakh (2012)
Tri bogatyrja i Šamachanskaja carica (2010)
![Aleksey Serebryakov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/109/309/109309399_442768.jpg)
Aleksey Serebryakov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Nobody (2021)
9th Company (2005)
Žila-byla odna baba (2011)
![Andrey Merzlikin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278482_983f1c.jpg)
Andrey Merzlikin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Short stories (2012)
Fortress of War (2010)
Franz+Polina (2006)
![Viktor Bychkov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/147/172/147172620_0b2a2a.jpg)
Viktor Bychkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
The Cuckoo (2002)
Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)
![Viktor Sukhorukov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505204_47c3a1.jpg)
Viktor Sukhorukov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The World Champion (2021)
The Castle (1994)
The Island (2006)
![Рената Литвинова](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/352/160352010_514b4e.jpg)
Рената Литвинова
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Tri istorii (1997)
About Love (2015)
Granica. Tajožnyj roman (2001) (series)
![Aleksandr Bashirov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/021/354/21354162_b5ef76.jpg)
Aleksandr Bashirov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Leto (2018)
9th Company (2005)
![Andrey Krasko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/087/189/87189984_8bbb20.jpg)
Andrey Krasko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)
![Dmitriy Pevtsov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/359/162359668_845040.jpg)
Dmitriy Pevtsov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Děň vyborov (2007)
About Love (2017)
Blind Man's Bluff (2005)
![Grigoriy Siyatvinda](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/451/162451671_c82d5f.jpg)
Grigoriy Siyatvinda
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Blind Man's Bluff (2005)
Paragraph 78 (2007)
![Yuriy Stepanov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/352/159352243_8c71bf.jpg)
Yuriy Stepanov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
His Wife's Diary (2000)
Cargo 200 (2007)
Wild Field (2008)
![Кирилл Пирогов](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/499/159499551_ffcf1e.jpg)
Кирилл Пирогов
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Admiral (2009) (series)
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Azazel (2002) (TV movie)
![Tatyana Dogileva](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/806/161806916_884702.jpg)
Tatyana Dogileva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
East/West (1999)
The Challenge (2023)
Anatoliy Zhuravlyov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Brother (1997)
Blind Man's Bluff (2005)
House of Fools (2002)
Aleksandr Ovchinnikov
Best movies:
Blind Man's Bluff (2005)
![Stepan Beketov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/899/161899574_601fbd.jpg)
Stepan Beketov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Blind Man's Bluff (2005)