Brigada
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| Brigada | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Aleksei Sidorov |
| Produced by | Valeri Todorovsky and Anatoly Sivushov |
| Written by | Igor Poroblyov and Aleksei Sidorov |
| Starring | Sergei Bezrukov Dmitry Dyuzhev Vladimir Vdovichenkov Pavel Maikov Yekaterina Guseva |
| Distributed by | Beta Film GmbH |
| Release date(s) | 2002 |
| Running time | 750 min. |
| Language | Russian |
| IMDb profile | |
Brigada (Russian: Бригада), also known as Law of the Lawless, was a Russian crime miniseries that debuted in 2002. It became very popular and received great reviews. The miniseries follows the story of four best friends from 1989 to 2000, mainly concentrating on the leader of the group, Sasha Belov, played by Sergei Bezrukov. The fifteen part miniseries was written by Igor Porublyov and Aleksei Sidorov and was directed by Aleksei Sidorov.
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[edit] Plot
The film proceeds in chronological order by years.
[edit] Summer 1989
The film begins in 1989 when Sergeant Alexander (Sasha) Belov, (nicknamed Belyi, or white) has finished his national service in the Russian border guards, and returns to a his home Bedroom District in Moscow. He is greeted by his three lifelong friends, Kosmos Kholmogorov (or Kos/Space), Viktor Pchelkin (Pcehla/Bee), and Valery Filatov (Fil/Phil). Immediately Belov's friends Kosmos and Pchela, who in his absence have been affected by the perestroika that has been transforming the Soviet Union and turned to racket on Moscow's markets, try to lure Sasha to join them. Belov abruptly refuses and instead states his interests in Vulcanology and his ambitions to join the respective university.
In addition Belov learns from them that his former girlfriend, Yelena Yeliseyeva has turned to prostitution. Belov finds the tochka , but after an attempted conversation is interrupted by her pimp, Mukha (fly). Prepared for the resulting fight, Belov strikes Mukha with a Brass knuckle resulting in fracture. Before Mukha's fellow gangsters have time to beat up Sasha, Kosmos, Fila and Pchela arrive and rescue their friend.
What Belyi did not know was that Mukha has a strong cover in the Militsiya by his uncle Lieutenant Vladimir Kaverin (Volodya), who, after Mukha has recovered from his injury, agrees to cover Belov's death. Belov instead calls for a 1-on-1 fight, which results in his win over him. The fight also ends Belov's relationship with Lenka.
Unlike Pchela and Kosmos, Fil follows sporting career in boxing, however the doctor diagnoses him with the early symptoms of Parkinson's and does not allow him to continue boxing. Yet at the same time offers him to compete in underground fight club that allows members of all Combat sportsmen such as boxers, wrestlers and martial arts to fight each other. Fila makes his fighting debut there and is supported by his three friends, but the audience includes Mukha, who decides to take his chance to avenge Belov by stabbing him, when a brawl breaks out in the supporters. The Brawl is broken up by the also present Kaverin who fires several shots in the air that causes the crowd to run off.
The next morning Mukha's body is found in the hangar where the Fight round was stationed, and Kaverin bribes the investigator to consider Belov as prime suspect. Soon, militsiya arrive at his apartment with a search order, who themselves stage that a pistol is found in his clothes. Kosmos who accidentally passes by, is asked to witness the search and from the window sees Sasha returning. He leaves hasily and manages to throw him in a car and explain what has happened.
Afterwards Kosmos hides Sasha at a friends' Dacha outside Moscow, and his friends make separate statements to the investigator. Simultaneously Sasha's mother also tries to recruit a lawyer and seeks help from Kosmos's father, Yuri Rostislavovich, who is a correspondening member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and thus has numerous contacts in the Soviet elite.
At the Dacha, Sasha notices a stunning neighbour in face of Olga Sorokina, who he immediately falls in love with, and even dares to follow her to her Violin recital in Moscow, afterwards he begins to court her, yet the date ends abrubtly when Olga, awaiting for Sasha to return with a broken heel on her shoe notices a Wanted poster with his face and name on the train platform.
Sasha's friends decide to entrain him, and with Fila's sport contacts "recruit" a group of four female swimmers who they drive to the Dacha for a party that ends with an orgy. The level of music was so high, that Olga's grandmother called the local sherrif, upon arriving he recognises Belov's face from the Wanted poster and immediately calls for OMON police to come. They arrive just after Fila and Kosmos drive off for more alcohol, and Pchela and Sasha barely escape the gunfire-rattled Dacha into the woods, where Sasha takes a bullet. Realising that Kosmos is out of money, he arrives home and in a drunken state confronts his father and Sasha's mother that everything is alright with Sasha. They return to find the local sherrif taken hostage by Pchela and Sasha and deciding not to kill him, drive off. In the meantime Kosmos' father after spending a whole night on the phone finally announces that he has cleared Sasha, and that his deed will be stopped, though that might take up to year before he can arrive in Moscow again. The 1989 story ends on top of Sparrow Hills as Dawn breaks out with the four friends overlooking the panorama of Moscow, the blood-soaked Sasha swears to his friends, that he will always remain loyal to them and to the brigada.
[edit] Spring 1991
The film picks up in 1991 and the viewer learns from Belov that duirng his 1.5 years in the Urals, after a lot of considerations he decided that a criminal life would be natural after what happened. Although Fila has taken up a job of stuntman, the brigade realise that their income from several markets and auto-services is insignificant and decide to make their first big move by racketing the chairmen of a large trade company Kurs-Invest (Course-Invest) and death threating its owner to allow Belov to be named one of its directors. The company owner, Artur, despite the obvious fear stricken into him by Belyi's somewhat-humorous methods, abruptly refuses, and leaves Belov's lawyer badly injured.
In revenge Belov hijacks a large deal of Artur that include's bringing in several train cars full of Aluminium from Tajikistan. After an unsuccessful attempt by Artur's own semi-criminal bodyguards to deal with Belov', the profile of the dispute catches the KGB's attention and agent Vvedensky acknowledges Belov's talent and luck convinces to his group to develop further. At the same time Artur contacts militsiya and his case is taken up by the now Captain Kaverin, who sees this as a perfect chance to settle score with Belov.
The Marriage of Sasha and Olga is to be followed by their First wedding night, in their new apartment in the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment building, a wedding gift by Pchela, Fila and Kosmos. However this almost ends in disaster when the hem of Olga's gown gets tangled in a wire attached to a pin of a hand grenade, neatly set up right in front of the door to their apartment. Sasha manages to just grab the armed grenade and throw it into the stairwell after a neighbour's dog rushed to rip the wire and release the pin.
Afterwards Olga confesses to Sasha that she loves him even though she knows who he is and what he does. After a quick trick, the mole in Sasha's group is quickly found driven into the woods and killed. Belov openly states to his brigade that anyone who tries something like that will be given the same fate. In the meantime it was revieled that the mole was Kaverin's man, who after his body was found wants to use his murder as evidence against Belov. Vvedensky has other ideas and as a result Kaverin is fired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Simultaneously the original Aluminium producer from Tajikistan calls for the Tajik mafia to move in against Belov for hijacking their deal, as only half of the fee was paid. In an imminent gang duel Belyi recognises the leader as his old army friend Farkhad Dzhurayev (Farik). The two instead choose to turn to Drug trade, where Belov's Aluminuium trains would be used to transport the heroin from Tajikistan. To celebrate the deal, both Belov's Brigada and Farik's godfathers go to a lavish restaurant, where they witness Olga performing. Vvedensky makes contact with Belov and under threat of forced labour announces that narcotics are to be only transited via Russia, in return for Belov's agreement, the Artur is forced to give up his position and emigrate, and Belov fully takes over Kurs-Invest including its Office and even Artur's sercretary, Lyuda.
Olga, after graduation from the Philharmonia fails to begin her music career, and instead turns to a former course-mate Vitalik, and joins his band. Vitalik, not hiding his attraction to Olga, turns to blackmail her into leaving her husband, who openely dissaproves of both Vilalik and her being part of the band, which he further makes visible by having the whole party leave the restaurant. Eventually Sasha witness how Vitalik verbally offends Olga and in a short fight and Olga happily walks off with Sasha. The 1991 part of the film finishes when Olga and Sasha pause their love-making and on the Television they notice that the Swan Lake is being broadcast on all channels, which a Russian viewer will know is the beginning August Coup.
[edit] Autumn 1993
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The 1993 of the story begins with Sasha returning from the United States, just as Olga is about to give birth to their child, However he arrives right in the middle of the Consitutional coup. Simultaneously Farik is sent to Moscow, as the trade deal of transiting drugs instead of selling them in Moscow is costing the producers a considerable amount of profit. As the two parties reach his (formerly Artur's) office, the Russian OMON raid the premises, and the whole brigada plus Farik are detained into the Butyrka isolator.
In the vast cell, all filled with inmates who were accidentally swept into there, these include Kaverin himself along with two colleagues. Although the two parties do not approach each other, they describe their friends what they know of them, and that Kaverin, after leaving the MVD, now runs a private security firm, whilst the other two are members of a local drug syndicate, one of whom is its leader, Bek.
Vvedensky, realising what has become of Belov, immediately pulls the strings for his release, and upon which he learns that Olga has successfully given birth to his son, Ivan. As the Brigada drive off to the hospital they see how army trucks carry off the dead bodies from the White House.
After seeing his newborn son, the Brigada come back to the office, where Farik is finally able to describe the problem to Belyi. Despite Kosmos and Pchela mutually agreeing that the prospect of selling drugs in Moscow would bring much more revenue, Sasha refuses. Afterwards Farik leaves the office, and Belyi changes his mind. What they did not know was that the whole conversation was recorded by Kaverin who used a remote device pointed at their window.
Immediately Kaverin forwards the tapes to Bek, who agrees to hijack the deal. Sasha fearing that the clients might trap Farik, offers Fila to come along to oversee the exchange. Farik refuses, and Sasha's worst fear comes true, the deal is carried out with Farik handing over the narcotics on the Ferris Wheel of the VDNKh and his two friends receiving the money outside Moscow. After the exchange, both Farik and his friends are murdered.
Sasha reaslizing the worst has happened, alone flies off with the coffins to Tajikistan where he meets Farik's father. Knowing that the relations were already strained, Belov, expected that they had every right to consider him responsible, however after telling them that he is here alone, and that their partnership is important, as well as showing Farik's father the photo of the newborn Ivan, Farik believ's him and allows him to return, after a promise that Belyi would find those who killed him.
Kaverin, decides to act out a double agent, and knowing that Bek could compromise his vendetta against Belov, approaches the Brigada and tells them about Bek and his group. On New Years eve, while Sasha, Olga and her grandmother sit in a front row of a box and view orchestra paly the No. 2 Waltz from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. The scenes go back and forth to show how Bek's groups is killed off one by one, with Belov, bored at the concert finally receiving a call confriming the successful operation causes him stand up with the audience and applaud a Bravo.
The 1993 part of the film ends with a meeting of the Vvedensky, reporing how Belov has liquidated Bek's group and on Kaverin, who they too decide to help develop, with intention to him being used as a counterbalance against Belov's rapidly growing mafia.
[edit] Spring 1994
As Belov's group gains more and more prominence, bigger games become played. For the first time their contacts go beyond narcotics, and Kaverin sets Kosmos up with Luka, a Thief in law. Luka offers Kosmos to use Belov's Drug channels to transfer arms to Chechnya, which is rapidly becoming a properous opportunity for the Russian mafia. Belov states to Kosmos that he is not interested in Arms Trade, and instead wants to legalise his activities, for which he be-friends a Russian politician Viktor Petrovich and passes on a set of papers for a "restoration fund".
Luka decides to act out, and attacks Sasha when he is visiting with Olga and Ivan to his mother's flat. Despite that Belyi missed a few bullets, and Fila taking a few himself, Max is able to kill two and pursues the remaining assassin away. Belov rushes upstairs and hurries Olga and Ivan, who are driven to a safehouse outside Moscow by Max. Belov and Fila are hide in an undisclosed flat in Moscow.
The shoot-out gains wide coverage on television, which Vvedensky watches from home. Seeing that the situation has become critical he contacts Kaverin to act out. Kaverin brings Kosmos to Luka, who tells him that in case of Belov failing to agree, Luka will remove him and Kosmos will take over. Despite this offer, Kosmos breaks the situation to Belov. In the meantime Olga discovers that Ivan has a throat infection that needs an urgent operation, driving to a local hospital, their escort gets caught on a GAI checkpoint and arrested. While surgeons carry it out, Luka's men surround the small provincial hospital, with only Max to defend it.
After a failed attempt of Fila dealing with Viktor Petrovich, Luka phones Belov and states his ultimatum. Belov throws the phone down, and Luka tells Kaverin to finish Belyi off. Kaverin hires a professional sniper and a meeting is held on the Tushino airfield with the sniper overlooking them form a top of building several kilometres away. However instead of Sasha, Luka falls, and Kosmos and Fila finish his bodyguards. Luka's men leave the hospital and the Ivan's operation is completed.
Afterwards, Belyi meets with Vvedensky and Kaverin, Vvedensky tells him that Kaverin is taking over Luka's activieties and Belyi must sell weapons to Chechnya. The 1994 story ends when Belov visits his late mother's flat. Witnissing the assination attempt, she collapsed with a heart attack, and passed away.
[edit] Autumn 1995
The First Chechen War has broken out, and every day radio reports state of the casulties Russians suffer from guerilla attacks. Kosmos feels very personal about this, as it was his original deal, but now their weapons are being used against their own men, Pchela in turn takes over the financial side of the distribution and views the opportunity very positively. This causes and open conflict between them, and Sasha himsels, who tells him to either pull himself together or he is out. Kosmos has long been taking Cocaine but now he went into overdose, and eventually crashes. Sasha visits him, and Kosmos confesses that it was him who shot Mukha back in 1989 when he saw that Belyi was about to be stabbed. Sasha forgives him, and leaves him at his fathers to recover.
In the meantime Belov continues to attempt in legalising the groups activities and finally secures a deal with Viktor Petrovich for a set of alcohol and tobacco licenses. Breaking the newst to Fila, they to a casino to celebrate, where Sasha becomes increasingly drunk, and they bump into a famous Film produce Gordon and his wife, actress Anyuta, who Fila knows from his work as a stuntmen.
Kaverin meantime finalises a new set of delivery of arms to Chechnya and after agreeing on the route, go to the same casino, where they meet up with Belov. The two engage in argument and soon Kaverin breaks the truth that it was under his influence that the search of his house in 1989 included a false extraction of a pistol. Belyi enraged, breaks a bottle of champagne on Volodya's head. Upon leaving the Casino, Belyi sees Anyuta's look and comes back to her place, whre he learns the next morning that the film producer Gordon is homosexual and their marriage is purely promotional.
Kaverin travels to Chechnya, and meets up with the insurgent militants. However the delivery of arms is intercepted by Russian spetsnaz commandos, who kill all of the militants and destroy the trucks with weapons. Back in Moscow the frantic Pchela waiting for the call to confirm the deal is told that everything is destroyed. Sasha reafirms him that despite the 11 million they lost, it will be good for them nonetheless. Viktor Petrovich thanks Sasha for the information he has given him and reasures him not to worry about the secrete police. Sasha further meets Vvedensky in front of his own home. Sasha tells the shocked agent that they both have children and that he wanted them to co-exist. Vvedensky now too acknowledges that even he can be affected by Belyi, and too reasures him that he did the correct deed in stopping the arms flow.
The 1995 part of the film ends with a blood soaked Kaverin, who despite taking two sniper bullets is limping next to a burnt out village. A Russian BTR patrol pulls up and the soldiers rescue him
[edit] Winter 1997
After the previous events, the Brigada calms down, Fila has a very successful part as a stuntmen in a new production by Gordon. Sasha maintains the relationship with Gordon's wife, Aniuta, who has the main role in the production. After a partciularly good stunt Fila borrows a camcorder from Aniuta to show Ivan, who returns with Olga from America.
Fila drives Olga and Ivan home and then catches the rest of the Brigada in a night club. There Pchela negotiates a new money laundering deal with the Caucasus mafia. Belyi refuses to accept it, but Pchela, to the desmise of Kosmos, decides to follow it through alone.
Pchela departs for the airport, whilst Fila drives Kosmos and Sasha back to their office. Originally the film began with this scene, just before the 1989 story unfolded, and chronologically it was repeated. In the car, all three notice how their wristwatch arms accelarate and the radio begins to glitch. In a split second decision Sasha yells for everyone to jump out, and with Kosmos they roll out onto the snow-covered street. Fila however jumps later, just before the Mercedes explodes.
Unconsicous, he is rushed off to the Hospital where he spends several hours under surgery with heavy head injury. Sasha and Kosmos both agree that Pchela is the only one who could have carried this out, and they send thier head of security Shmit, and his men (former thugs) to find him. Pchela himself as soon as he learns of the attack, just as he arrives to the airport, catches the first taxi back to Moscow.
Night falls, and Fila is still under surgery, Olga meanwhile is driving with Maks, on the Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Pchela catches up with her, and tells her in a pharmacy that the Camcorder which Fila borrowed remained turned on, and that right now it is at Aniuta's house (Fila returned it to her after realising that it was Gordon's camera). Maks seeing Pchela calls Shmit, who brings him to the hospital.
Olga meanwhile comes to Aniuta's home and confronts her, forcing to abandon the relationship with Sasha. At the Hospital Pchela is met with Belyi and Kosmos holding pistols, kneeing before them, they are interrupted by a nurse asking for anyone with Type B negative blood for Fila. Sasha points to Pchela who makes a trasfusion to the still unconscious Fila, after the operation was finally completed.
Kosmos then tells Belyi that he will not have the courage to kill Pchela, to which Sasha replies that neither will he. At this moment Olga and Maks burst in with the camcorder, which Fila forgot to turn off. The view shows how Gordon plants the bomb inside a dummy head prop. Kosmos remembers that Gordon was in debt to Fila.
Realising what has happened Kosmos pleads to Pchela for his mistake, the 1997 part of the film ends when Olga walks in to the drunken Kosmos, Sasha and Pchela and tells then that Fila is in a coma.
[edit] Winter 1998
A year has passed and Fila's condition is still in a Coma. The doctors try to persuade his wife, Tamara to turn off his feeding tube, as there is little chance of recovery. Learning of this Belov, finances in transferring him to a private clinic, and simultaneously decides to avenge for his friend. Gordon meanwhile makes a successful and popular premier of his new picture, yet afterwards, to celebrate he meets his homosexual date where they drive off to a gay club in a dark alleyway. The young lads passes regards from Sasha Belyi and stabs Gordon.
The murder of a famous film producer generates a massive media outrage on the mafia, and Olga realising of this, takes Ivan and leaves Sasha. Belov, comes to the same datcha where her grandmother lives and almost forcefully assaults Olga. The militsiya arrive, where Sasha recognises the same local sherrif from 1989. Immediately he turns himself in and back at the station the too drink and dance telling their life stories. The militia officer then demonstrates the old wanted poster of Belov, and sets out making him some photocopies. As he awaits, Belov's eyes grow in shock, staring at him is an election poster with Kaverin's face.
The viewer learns that Kaverin has survived Chechnya, and now is planning to win a seat in the State Duma in the upcoming majoritorial election. Knowing what this could mean for Belyi, he decides.
In a separate event Shmit, Pchela and Kosmos pay Gordon's assassin, but after he leaves the face, a SOBR unit arrests them, drives into the woods, where the three are forced to dig a grave for themselves under gunpoint. Afterwards the SOBR gunment open fire at the empty trees right above their heads, and then walk off, leaving the three to find a way out.
When they finally arrive back at the office, Belov enquires into the event, and Viktor Petrovich tells him that it was carried out by a militsiya commander, and after Gordon's death it was a warning that there were still people who could crush Belyi. Undeterred, Belyi visits the Commander and confronts him, telling he did what was necessary for his friend. At the same time he gets a phone call from the hospital that there has been further complications with Fila.
The 1998 part ends when Sasha visits Fila and find him surrounded by doctors who were too busy discussing the event, after failing to get an answer from them on what actually happened he looks kneels over Fila, and seeing that his are open wispers: Brother, a tear flows out of Fila's eyes. After that Belov makes his mind to run against Kaverin.
[edit] Winter 1999
The elections are scheduled for early spring, and both Kaverin and Belov try to outdo each other. Vvedensky decides to act once again, and pushes the two to closer confrontation. Kaverin instead decides to smear Belov's image. A provocative poster "Brotherhood is fighting to the Power" with Belov holding a pistol is issued, and then the typography is set on fire. Secret reels from the early 1990s showing how the Brigada are involved in racket are played on TV. Bugs are located in Belov's office. Most of all however is that Kaverin out of nowhere demonstrates Artur to the public, who tells of how Belov's criminal gang forced him out of Russia and took over his business. Kaverin's biography that is displayed to the public itself is based on a real officer who died in Cechnya. Vvedensy warns Volodya that if of course the public finds out what he really did there, this would be used against him.
Belyi instead demonstrates the need for a more social policy, has his men deliver presents to the poor, and finances construction of Orthodox Churches. Simultaneously he tries to re-unite with Olga, and after a dinner together, breaks with her into the same dacha where he hid in 1989. There he tells her of who he got approached her and what he thought, the discussion turns to love-making.
As the elections near, the two candidates engage in a television debate, both ask peircing questions into the cloudy past. Kaverin decides to play a trump card, a cassette with more early 1990s recordings. However instead a role from the Godfather is played, much to the amusement of the viewers. Belov then takes the initiative and states that the reel that was to be played was one of thousands there could be and admits to his past. However he states that this began at the very top in the government and he was just an pawn that was swept into the new world. He states that what is important is that at present everbody wants to live in a better country where the necessary actions off the past would remain there.
Soon indeed the elections come, and despite Kaverin's early lead, Belov clips a narrow margin at the last moment and wins the vote. A celebration follows at Belov's office, Kosmos proposes to Liuda, Artur's original secretary who has worked with them since 1991. Then a phone call follows that Sasha and Olga are on their way. Pchela and Kosmos come out into the snow covered courtyard to greet them, and see Sasha's red SUV driven alone by Maks, who climbs out and stabs the two.
Belyi who arrives later, is shocked at what happened. At dawn Belov also learns that Fila, and his wife Tamara were also killed in the clinic. Maks is nowhere to be found. Meeting up with Vvedensky Sasha learns that Maksim Karelsky, despite working for eight years for Belov, and several times rescuing both him, his family and Pchela from Belyi himself. Nonetheless originally he was to be shot by the Chechens and Kaverin paid his ranom, after which he used him to infiltrate the Brigada.
Both the underground Criminal world, Viktor Petrovich, Kosmos father, Yuti Rostislavovich and Vvedensky, ask that Belov does not seek revenge. Sasha says that he can't accept that, and first rattles Kaverin's apartment with an RPK as a message he will avenge. In the final stunt, he contacts his old friend who the viewer saw throughout the film, karate trainer and stuntman Alexander Inshakov. Originally they meet up back in 1989 when Sasha bought a Mastiff, then again in in 1991 they offered him to train his men, and he refused, Inshakov was Fila's close friend during their stunt work for Gordon, and shortly before Gordon's death asked him to have all of the film reels to make a tribute to stuntman Filatov.
Sasha then visits the morgue where already the four coffins are prepared for the funeral, and symbolically adds a pistol into each of three ones. The next day, Kosmos's original Lincoln Town Car is shown to Sasha. Belyi sends Shmit to the cemetery, and says he follow onwards. When he arrives the funeral service is about to begin. As Belov, Olga and Ivan drive onto a causeway, the car is hit by an RPG and falls into the river. The funeral mass is announced that Belov is killed.
Learning of this, Kaverin decides to come out of hiding, and released Maks. He and Artur are examing a construction site that is soon to open as a new shopping centre. Out of nowhere Belyi appears and kills Maks, Artur and finally Kaverin himself. Afterwards he explains to Inshakov how he staged his own death and how the car was empty when it exploded and went over.
The film ends in spring when snow melted, Sasha once again visits Sparrow Hills alone, and remembers how ten years ago he swore to always stand for his brothers. Repeating the words he adds that he swears he will never forget them, and with that cracks his watch on the railing.
The film ends in the airport, where Olga and Ivan, await for Sasha to leave Russia. The plane is already full, and Olga gets a call that Sasha will not be joining them, the tearful Olga walks into the ariplane. Sasha, seeing the plane take off, drives back into the city.
[edit] Cast
Although the actors were not fresh, for nearly all of them, it was this film that made their careers.
[edit] Sequel
The author of the original book wrote a series of sequel novels which had Sasha start a new gang but it was met with lack luster reviews by critics who said there was no chemistry between Sasha and the new gang like there was between him, Pchela, Kosmos, and Fil. However the book is still considered an interesting read for whomever enjoyed the first part.
[edit] External links
- Brigada at the Internet Movie Database
- Brigada on RTR
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