Brother 2 (2000) on Netflix
NR20002h 2mActionCrimeThriller
In Moscow, veteran Danila Bagrov learns that his friend Konstantin's twin, a hockey player in Chicago, is trapped in a contract with kingpin Richard Mennis. Danila finds Konstantin shot dead.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb7.6/1020,812 votes
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Plot summary
Danila Bagrov, a Chechen War veteran, is interviewed on television in Moscow alongside army friends Ilya Setevoy, a museum programmer, and Konstantin Gromov, who works in bank security. In a bathhouse afterward, Konstantin explains that his twin brother Dmitry plays for the Chicago Blackhawks and is being extorted by Richard Mennis, an American kingpin who has come to Moscow to meet Valentin Belkin, the head of Konstantin's bank. Viktor, Danila's brother, is sent by their mother from Priozersk to find him in Moscow. Konstantin asks Belkin to raise his brother's case. Danila finds Konstantin shot dead, and he and Ilya start plotting revenge, buying a CD of information about Belkin and guns on the black market.
Cast
- Lisa Jeffreyas Lisa
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Brother 2 (2000)
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- Aleksei Balabanov asked two actors to hit Sergei Bodrov Jr. harder during a fight scene in a Chicago ghetto so it would look natural, and by accident they broke two of Bodrov's ribs.
- In 2015 the Ukrainian State Film Agency banned Brother 2 from being shown in the country, saying it contains scenes humiliating to Ukrainians on a national basis and that screening it during the aggression in the east was incorrect.
- Television journalist Alexander Lyubimov was to play the presenter in the Ostankino television-center interview scene but refused the day before and did not provide his studio, so the scene was shot in the V mire lyudey studio with Ivan Demidov as presenter.
- The video game Cyberpunk 2077 contains direct references to Brother 2, including a monologue delivered by the character Bagrov in Mennis's office.
- Since its release in 2000, Brother 2 has developed a cult following among Russian-speaking audiences and has been embraced by elements of the extreme right in Russia.
- The classic Peterbilt 379 truck driven by the character Ben in the film was driven during filming by actor Ray Toler himself, who later recalled it as the hardest role of his life.
