Netflix, the world’s largest streaming platform, has bought the rights to Russia’s “Brother” (“Brat”) films and will make them available from June 1.
The “Brother” series are Russian neo-noir crime dramas written and directed by Alexei Balabanov in 1997 and 2000. The series tells a story of Danila Bogrov, who has just returned from fighting in the first Chechan war. He gets pulled into the world of his older brother, Viktor, a hitman. In the first film they kill mafia bosses in post-Soviet St. Petersburg, and in the second film they take on American-Ukranian mobsters in Chicago.
This is not the only major Netflix Russian deal. In late May, Netflix announced the filming of its first original Russian TV series “Anna K,” a modern take on Leo Tolstoy’s classic “Anna Karenina” starring actress Svetlana Khodchenkova. She is familiar to Western viewers from her role as Irina in the 2011 version of John le Carré’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”
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