Dealer (movie series)

The filming of "The Dealer" coincided with the beginning of the growing popularity of Danish cinema in the USA , the reason for which was Dogma 95 , proclaimed by Lars von Trier , ^[2] . While Nicholas Winding Refn, together with aspiring actors, worked on the film in the conditions of the strictest economy, his father edited the film “ Breaking the Waves ” by von Trier. Nicholas Winding borrowed some principles from the compatriot’s manifest, such as the use of a hand-held camera, cinema believe and naturalism ^[3] . The organizers of film festivals flatly refused to accept the finished work and only thanks to a lucky accident did a certain British distributor see the tape on the market in Berlin and rent it in the United Kingdom . “It was a glorious moment,” Refn later recalled. “The film did more than I ever thought - he left Copenhagen. For me it was like making Star Wars . ” ^[4] The subsequent triumph of this criminal drama in Europe was to a large extent facilitated by the positive response of British critics ^[3] .

In 2003, Refn made the first attempt to make a movie outside of Denmark. The director was unsuccessful - the fear “X” , directed in Los Angeles , suffered a financial collapse, leaving Nicholas Winding a debt of about one million pounds ^[5] . The director was forced to almost return to the origins of his career and start the journey anew, fearing not to reach the level of his best film ^{[6] [3]} . The risky venture was successful and allowed Refn to pay off debts, although in order to consolidate his financial status the Dane still had to be in the role of a director for hire - shooting an episode for the British television series “ Miss Marple Agatha Christie ” ^[7] . Subsequently, Nicholas Winding admitted: “I always felt thatit was a film where I allowed myself to lower the bar. It haunts me. Although, if I had not gone through this experience, I could not have made “Dealer 2 and 3” ^[8] .

Cinematic trilogy reviews often compare the work of Nicholas Winding Refn with the work of American directors Quentin Tarantino - in terms of portraying cruelty - and Martin Scorsese - because of the addiction to long unbroken takes ^[2] . Despite this, reviewers repeatedly emphasized the original, “distinctly not Hollywood ” ^[9] style of the Dane: “American crime thrillers have grown so hyped by pop culture and testosterone that these three Danish noirs amaze with their restraint and special attention to the characters” ^[10] . Critics noted that despite the ten-year gap between the first and last picture, the trilogy is characterized by a connecting visual style and common themes - honor, family, cruel vicissitudes of fate - but each ribbon has its own resonances ^[1] .

Dealer

A week in the life of the Danish drug dealer Frank: on Monday, he is having fun and fooling around with his accomplice Tonnie, but on Sunday the hero, betrayed by his friends and mired in thousands of debts, with horror imagines the reprisals prepared for him by the Serbian drug dealer Milo.

Dealer 2

Frank's former partner, the eternal loser Tonni, pennilessly leaves prison to freedom, where an unplanned child from a drug-addicted prostitute and a cruel father are waiting for him - a crime boss involved in organizing car thefts. Milo appears in one of the scenes, briefly mentioning Frank’s flight from Copenhagen, from which we can conclude that the hero of the first film survived.

Dealer 3

A day in the life of an aging Milo, who is simultaneously trying to arrange a celebration in honor of his daughter’s birthday, to settle matters with business partners and overcome his drug addiction. In the final part of the trilogy, comrades Milo Radovan and Branko returned. In one scene, an accomplice of Tonnie Kurt appears. The roles of Muhammad and Mike, previously appearing episodically as an arms dealer and bodybuilder, respectively, have been noticeably expanded.

The film under the "licensed" name "Dealer" was released by Moscow LLC "Flagship Trade" in the summer of 2013. It is worth noting that such a translation of the English word is somewhat inaccurate. Pusher ( pusher , from English to push - push ^[11] ) is considered to be a street “pusher”, a drug dealer selling goods in boxed, small packaging ^[12] , while under the dealer ( dealer , from English deal - transaction, agreement ^[13] ) is usually understood as an intermediary between the wholesale supplier and the retailer. So, for example, the hero of the trilogy Milo is a dealer, and his “best friend in Copenhagen” Frank is a pusher.

Excluding the Flagship Trade disc, the films of the series are available on torrent trackers in various amateur translations, such as Pusher, Drug Dealer, Bandyugan. After deduction of the most faithful “Pusher” considered above, the “Drug Dealer” can be noted - as a neutral option that does not contain an obvious semantic error. The last name - "Bandyugan" - can not be called right.