Dealer 2

Tony, who is going to be free from prison from day to day, is listening carefully to the story of his cellmate - he has overcome the fear of four bandits trying to take his business away by opening fire from their machine gun on their car. One bullet hit the gas tank and the four burned alive in their car. Summing up the above, the prisoner said that there was only one difference between him and Tonnie - fear still reigned over Tonnie.

In search of work, Tonnie comes to his father’s garage, a crime boss known as the Duke. He meets his son very coldly and gives him work with great reluctance. From now on, every attempt by Tonnie to prove himself ends with his humiliation.

When discussing with Brother Red the prospect of a car theft, the Duke is demonstratively condescending to Tonnie's opinion. While the gang of the Duke is having fun in the brothel, Tonnie cannot get excited and leaves the establishment in disgrace. On the way to his father’s garage, he obeys a sudden impulse and steals a red Ferrari , which makes the Duke angry - such a machine is easy to spot. After the robbery of a car shop with the Duke’s people, the tattooed bandit has no place in the common car and Tonnie asks Red to let him in the trunk.

The prostitute Charlotte informs Tonnie that she gave birth to a child from him, and demands to bring money to the house. The newly made father agrees to "cover his back" to the local pimp Kurt, nicknamed Kiska, while he will carry out a deal to buy cocaine . The seller is the Serbian authority Milo - an old friend of Tonnie. Having paid and received the goods, Kurt flushes it into the toilet, fearing an unexpected knock at the door. Pussy tries to persuade the Serb to return 15 thousand crowns, which the pimp took from the Duke, but Milo refuses. For the last money, Kurt Tonnie buys the cheapest gun from the arms dealer Mohammed and shoots the pimp so that he can buy time and tell the Duke lies about the armed attack and the taking of money.

Tonnie attends the wedding of O and Grew, where the Duke makes a toast, extolling the virtues of his colleague O and reproaching the loser-son. Upset Tonny gets pumped up with booze and cocaine, and gives vent to anger when Charlotte leaves their child unattended. Calm Oh, Tonnie leaves the company, realizing that once again he behaved stupidly and unworthily. On the street, Kiska invites him to smash the pimp's house, thus continuing the lie about Kurt being pursued by a Serbian drug dealer. Toney agrees, but when it comes to the murder of a prostitute in the house, he runs back to the wedding party.

In a desperate attempt to reconcile with her father, Tonnie volunteers to kill his ex-wife, and now one of Pussy's prostitutes is Jeanette. He comes to Kurt's hangout, but hesitates to kill. Upon learning of this, the Duke severely scolds his son and spits in his face. The hero loses patience and attacks the Duke, frenziedly thrusting a sharpener into him even when life has already left the bandit's body. Finding About Tonnie finds Charlotte and Gray sniffing cocaine. Seizing the moment, the hero takes his child, steals a few coins from someone's bag, and leaves the city. The last shots show the back of the head with the tattooed word respect.

In the wake of the success of the first “Dealer”, Nicholas Winding Refn shot the everyday drama “ Bleeding with Blood ”, with the cast of his debut film and with some directorial experiment - two storylines. Refn’s colleagues on the creation of this film suggested that he continue his joint work with the same team, but considering himself to be quite an experienced director, the Dane refused this idea, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and started shooting a new film in the Canadian province of Manitoba ^[1] . The result of this work, the neonaro “ Fear X” , crashed, as Refna himself admitted, “at all levels: financial, commercial, artistic, creative, personal” ^[2] .

Under the yoke of millions of debt, Refn had no choice but to return to Denmark and turn to the popular formula of bankrupt directors - to remove the continuation of his successful film ^[3] . The decision about the sequel was not easy for the director: suppressed by the failure of Fear X, Refn was afraid that he would not be able to make a movie superior to Dealer and, giving consent to the shooting, he showed others his contempt and disgust for the idea of ​​"Dealer 2" ^[4] . The crisis was put to an end by the director’s spouse, Liv Korfiksen, who gave birth to his first child. Nicholas Winding took it as God's sign and the film “rose” in his eyes. According to the Dane, he enjoyed working on the sequel, considering the film as the first "Dealer", what he was supposed to be, but what a young and inexperienced director could not do it ^[1] .

The script, which was written by the director in two weeks, was semi-autobiographical in nature - in a difficult relationship between father and son, in particular. Tonni, a supporting character from Refn's debut picture, came to the main character’s position. At first, the director portrayed him as cool as in the first part, but the performer Mads Mikkelsen turned to Nicholas Winding with the words “Listen, Nick, you're not so cool”, alluding to autobiographical notes in the image of Tonnie ^[2] . As a result, Mads was very pleased with the touching and beautiful story of Refn and his character - “a supporting hero in his own film,” as the actor put it ^[1] .

The fears of Nicholas Winding Refn were in vain - the second "Dealer" when compared with the first was noted as a more expressive cinematic work, now and then bordering on fabulous surrealism ^[5] . A reviewer of the American newspaper The Guardian called “Dealer 2” a very smart and fascinating gangster painting, despite all its cruelty and gloom ^[6] . A columnist for the British Empire magazine added that the tape, at a minimum, gives every reason to watch "Dealer 3" ^[7] . The acting play of Mads Mikkelsen, who, by the definition of the critic Variety , managed to portray the tenderness of a tattooed and fierce-looking criminal ^[8] , was awarded a number of film awards in Denmark, including the most significant award - “ Body ”, awarded by the Danish National Association of Film Critics ^[9] .