Brother (franchise)

Brother (1997)

Danila Bagrov, returning home from the war, learns from her mother that he has a brother in St. Petersburg and his brother's name is Viktor Bogrov.

Brother 2 (2000)

Victor Bogrov, becoming a policeman, returns to his brother in Moscow. After the meeting, Danila offers his brother to go to America with him, to which Victor agrees without question.

Sisters (2001)

The story of two uterine sisters of different age and character, who come together after going through a series of difficulties. This film is a spin-off to the Brother franchise ^[3] .

Future Series

After the release of the second part, Balabanov in his interviews refused to shoot the third part, believing that the story of Danila Bagrova has outlived itself and it is necessary to move in a new direction. It was also assumed that it would be better to kill Danila Bagrov in the third part, so as not to continue the story ^[12] .

On the basis of "Brother" you can even run the series. But Seryozha grew up - not only from this image, he generally grew up, he himself became a director, and a good director. Therefore, he does not want to play this role anymore, and it is not interesting for me to come up with new life ups and downs of Danila Bagrov. Everything. The story is over ^[13] .

- Alexey Balabanov

In the future, Sergei Bodrov himself began to direct, and his immediate plans did not include acting in the sequel. However, he did not completely exclude this possibility.

We have our own chat on the Internet, and there people constantly ask: “Will there be“ Brother-3 “? Do you agree to star in Brother-3? ”Producer Selyanov and I thought long about how to answer such questions and eventually found a rather evasive, but nonetheless, answer:“ We'll wait and see. ” Therefore ... Well, who knows ^[14] ?

- Sergey Bodrov

Viktor Sukhorukov always agreed to star in the third part, repeatedly said this in his interviews, and even wrote script drafts that he showed to Balabanov, but was refused him.

Brother 3 (2020)

In 2014, Sukhorukov announced his desire to make the film "Brother 3" and devote it to the memory of Balabanov and Bodrov.

I brought Lesha a lot of ideas, to the extent that I came up with the return of my hero, how the Mexicans save him from an American prison and he returns to Petersburg in an oil trawler. Stained with fuel oil, crawls out of the barrel with diesel fuel, sparkling with white teeth, says: “Well, hello, homeland!” I came up with a plot where a brother is about to appear. He said to Alexei: “Imagine that we are looking for him, and he suddenly flashed through the window, turned a corner, and Bodrov appeared alive by the end.” These were my dreams. Alexey did not accept them. But I stand to continue this story already in memory of Balabanov and Seryozha Bodrov ^[15] .

- Viktor Sukhorukov

Cameraman Sergey Astakhov also agreed to take part in the filming of the third part.

If there was a third, then I would participate, at least in memory of the guys who died. I think that this would be a kind of monument to them.

- Sergey Astakhov

February 28, 2019 there was information that Stas Baretsky wants to remove the third part of “Brother”, and he will give one of the roles in the film to Vyacheslav Datsik ^{[1] [2]} .

Balabanov , director of Brother 1 and Brother 2 . I talked closely with him and at one time he took money from me for the Third Brother. In his third brother, he wanted to give a definite answer to the public because he was sickened up with the question “What is the strength of his brother?” Well, no matter how ridiculous it sounds to someone! Accordingly, he took money. He took money not from me, not personally from me, but he took money from representatives of the Ritual structures - the Ritual business. ^[sixteen]

- Stas Baretsky

This message caused a negative reaction among most people and fans. In turn, Sergei Bodrov Sr. found this idea strange, Sergey Selyanov expressed the opinion that this is “ rudeness , disrespect and stupidity” in relation to those who created the first two parts, Viktor Sukhorukov said that he did not want to know people who have attitude to this project, and Irina Saltykova called them “clowns” ^{[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]} . In addition, fans of the two parts of “Brother” sign a petition on Change.org to cancel the filming of the third film ^[22] . On March 14, 2019, the script for the film was written and it was announced that the third part would become a porn movie ^[23] . Filming is planned to be completed by 2020 ^[24] .

Initially, after the success of the first part, Alexei Balabanov planned to remove two sequels . The second part was to tell about the adventures of Danila Bagrov in Moscow, and the third about the adventures in America. However, it was decided to abandon this idea, considering that two separate films with such plots would look boring and it was decided to combine the last two parts into one whole film ^[25] .

Indicator List

• A dark gray cell means that the character did not appear in this film.
• appears as a cameo .

Back to America

In November 2000, the computer game Brother 2: Back to America ^[26] was released on Windows . The plot of the game was an alternative continuation of the movie Brother 2 . The main character of the game from the film of the same name, Danila Bagrov , goes to the USA in order to save his brother, who ended up in an American prison.

Danila Returns

In 2009, the Java-game for mobile phones was released. Brother 2: Danila returns . The game begins with the office of Valentin Belkin (president of the Russian bank), who has a common business with Menis. After a conversation with Belkin, Danila decides to visit a Chicago colleague and goes to America ...

• " Brother ” on the Internet Movie Database
• " Brother 2 " on the Internet Movie Database
• " Sisters ” on the Internet Movie Database