Brother
(1997)
★ 7.8 IMDb · 28,219 votes
Year: 1997
Runtime: 100 min
Country: Russia
Director: Алексей Балабанов
Cast: Сергей Бодров мл., Виктор Сухоруков, Юрий Кузнецов, Светлана Письмиченко, Мария Жукова
Plot
Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill the boss instead.
Newly discharged from the army, Danila goes to his older brother - a gangster and a killer - to start a new life in St. Petersburg where he's soon situated in the criminal world and asked to kill someone. There his new life starts. He meets new people, including a girl, and becomes a big fan of the rock band "Nautilus Pompillius," but now he is a killer, and realizing killing is easier for him than living makes him understand he is going the wrong way.