You are not my brother, “Brother 3”: the intrigue of the new film is revealed

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Viktor Sukhorukov offered Balabanov to make a sequel, but he refused

The other day there was a very strange trailer for the film “Brother 3”. Apparently, the new picture will have nothing to do with the dilogy of Alexei Balabanov. The director of this opus was 47-year-old Valery Pereverzev – an actor, screenwriter, director, behind whom such films as “Barbara”, “The Bluebeard Five: Islands of Death”.

In general, for a wide audience, he is a completely new person. And the American actor Eric Roberts is removed from him at the same time. In the trailer, he rides in a car almost in a general’s uniform, and so far it is difficult to say who he is, and what kind of times are in the yard. On one of the houses is written: USSR. You can, of course, sneer at the brother of the famous beauty Julia Roberts, remember that he doesn’t care where and with whom to act. There is such a joke: while Eric Roberts was driving from the airport to the city, he managed to star in three films. It’s almost like that in life. Eric Roberts lives at crazy speeds, shoots a lot, but he is a smart person with a good sense of humor, as I saw during his visits to Russia and interviews, which are great. Eric treats any person as if he were his own, and this is not a mask.

In addition to him, a cute maid in a short dress appears on the screen. Girls in this uniform, like “nurses”, are especially popular in strip clubs and erotic shows. Here, too, the young lady cleans the apartment of some respectable person, enticing him with her charms. Another hero sits in a trash can and plays with a knife – well, a real bandit. Brother 3 stars the twins Vladimir and Yuri Torsuev, the Frenchman Olivier Siou, who has worked in Russian cinema more than once, the Australian actor with Greek roots Costas Mandylor, the debutante Alexandra Voznesenskaya, and the rapper Ptaha.

Eric Roberts is filming Brother 3.







Alexey Balabanov’s “brother” turns 25 this year. Its world premiere took place on May 17, 1997 in Cannes, and its Russian premiere took place at Kinotavr. The premiere of “Brother 2” was held in 2000. The films have been digitalized, shown at festivals, and recently re-released. The hero Sergei Bodrov Jr. is considered a hero, a symbol of a whole generation and an anti-hero. For some, he is kind and fair, but capable of killing. His phrase “Let’s love the Motherland because it is ours” went to the people, like many others. Today they are often quoted, and this further fuels the debate about where is the line that distinguishes good from bad. And after the premiere, the authors of the film were accused of nationalism. Dilogy producer Sergei Selyanov responded to criticism as follows: “Brother 2” is a comedy. Alexey was a contemporary high-level artist. Today he felt and spoke well. When mediocre and politically biased people speak, it looks unworthy.”

Balabanov himself said: “I tell what I know. I believe that films should be made sincerely and from the heart. This is what you feel, what you once experienced or are experiencing now – it doesn’t matter, but it should be interesting and as realistic as possible. Alexei Balabanov passed away in 2013. He was 54.

On September 20, 2002, Sergei Bodrov and almost the entire film crew of his film The Messenger went missing during a glacier descent in the Karmadon Gorge in North Ossetia. Bodrov was then 30 years old. People believed that they would open the tunnel, and Sergei would get out of there alive. Almost like in the fantasies of Viktor Sukhorukov, who, in our conversation about the continuation of Brother 3, told how he personally persuaded Alexei Balabanov to make the final film of the trilogy. Arriving at the director’s birthday, Viktor Sukhorukov told him: “Take it off! The film will not turn out – and to hell with it, but you will earn millions, you will make your own movie. Balabanov replied: “I do not know this time. Let whoever wants to do it. And I won’t do that.” “Of course, there were conversations about how it is generally possible to make Brother 3 without Sergei Bodrov. I brought Lyosha a lot of ideas, to the extent that I came up with the return of my hero, how the Mexicans rescue him from an American prison, and he returns to St. Petersburg in an oil trawler. Soiled with fuel oil, he crawls out of a barrel of diesel fuel, flashing his white teeth, and says: “Well, hello, motherland!” I came up with a plot where the brother is about to appear. He said to Alexei: “Imagine that we are looking for him, and he suddenly flashed through the window, turned around the corner, and a live Bodrov will appear by the end.” These were my dreams. Alexei did not accept them, ”recalled Viktor Sukhorukov.

A whole program has been prepared for the 25th anniversary of “Brother”. In Nizhny Novgorod “Arsenal”, the city where Alexei studied at the translation department of the Pedagogical Institute, Balabanov’s readings were held. An interactive exhibition dedicated to the film will open in St. Petersburg in September. A series of comics based on “Brother” will be published if its organizers deem it appropriate.

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