Sergei Bodrov and other unique photographs from Balabanov's photo archive

We present you the recently published photographs from the filming of the film "Brother-2" from the director's personal archive. Konstantin Shavlovsky and Petr Leznikov from the magazine "Seance" accidentally saw these unique photos when they were visiting Alexei Balabanov. And they offered to publish them online, as well as print them as a set of postcards.

(Total 30 photos)

1. Sergei Bodrov on the set of the film "Brother-2".

2. Sergei Bodrov in New York during the filming of the film.

3. Viktor Sukhorukov on the set of the film "Brother 2".

4. "What you become happens in the first sixteen years of life." (c) Sergei Bodrov

5. On the set.

6. On May 11, 2000, the premiere of the film "Brother-2" took place in Russia. Filming took place in Moscow, New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh.

7. Alexei Balabanov, Sergei Bodrov and Milton Willer on the set of the film "Brother 2".

8. Aleksey Balabanov made 14 feature films, not counting amateur and documentary films. His plans also included the film "My brother is dead", but the director did not have time to finish his script.

9. On May 18, 2013, while working on another script in the sanatorium "Dunes" in the city of Sestroretsk (Kurortny district of St. Petersburg), Alexei Balabanov suddenly died at the age of 55.

10. “He was a strange, uncomfortable, but with an amazing internal, core structure of a person,” Nikita Mikhalkov, who starred in Balabanov’s crime drama “Blind Man’s Buff”, described the director.

11. Sergei Bodrov and Alexei Balabanov on the set of the film "Brother 2".

12. The heroes of Balabanov are often outsiders, people who find themselves on the verge, in search of their place, who are unable to find harmony with the outside world.

13. The hero of Bodrov, Danila, was called the first real hero of post-Soviet cinema, who practically created his own mythology and value system.

14. Moscow part of the filming.

15. Film crew.

16. It was Balabanov's films that brought Sukhorukov all-Russian fame and real people's love.

17. The film, as well as its first part, was criticized by the media. It was written that he expresses racist ideas, threatens national security and offends the Ukrainian and American nations.

18. Sergei Bodrov and Daria Lesnikova on the set of the film "Brother 2".

19. Alexei Balabanov and cameraman Sergei Astakhov on the set of the film "Brother 2".

20. Viktor Sukhorukov on the set.

21. Milton Wheeler on the set of Brother 2.

22. Daria Lesnikova on the set of the film "Brother 2".

23. Alexei Balabanov and Sergei Astakhov on the set of the film "Brother 2".

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25. In 2000, the film "How Brother 2 was filmed" was also released.

26. Sergei Astakhov, together with Alexander Dyachenko, who plays the role of Dmitry Gromov.

27. Alexander Dyachenko.

28. Nadezhda Vasilyeva, costume designer (and wife of Balabanov), Bodrov, Astakhov, Balabanov.

29. Lesnikova and Willer.

30. It was important for us to say not that all Americans are goats, we, on the contrary, wanted to say that we are not freaks. This is a fairly simple idea, it is strange that not everyone understands it. And in the cinema, it had to be voiced in a too bright way, simply because this is a movie. In the cinema, everything should be somewhat exaggerated. (c) Sergei Bodrov