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Brother

1997 · 96 min · Director: Aleksey Balabanov, Aleksei Balabanov ★ IMDb 7.7 · 29,695 ratings

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Newly discharged from the army, Danila goes to his older brother - a gangster and a killer - to start a new life in St. Petersburg where he's soon situated in the criminal world and asked to kill someone. There his new life starts. He meets new people, including a girl, and becomes a big fan of the rock band "Nautilus Pompillius," but now he is a killer, and realizing killing is easier for him than living makes him understand he is going the wrong way.

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Brother (1997) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Tension 30%, Excitement 25%, Anger 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Anger20%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Tension, Excitement, Anger. Genres: Thriller, Drama, Crime. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Tension, Excitement and Anger. Its IMDb rating of 7.7/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 73/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Tension
  • Disturbing
  • Empathy

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No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Dominant emotion: Relief

Dominant emotion: Melancholy

Tension
Disturbing
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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then peaks around 83 %, then dips around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionDisturbingEmpathy
2.5 %≈ 2′Tension43 %42 %30 %13 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Tension45 %41 %34 %18 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Tension45 %41 %34 %20 %
17.5 %≈ 17′Tension50 %49 %38 %16 %
22.5 %≈ 22′Tension50 %49 %36 %13 %
27.5 %≈ 26′Tension46 %44 %32 %15 %
32.5 %≈ 31′Tension53 %49 %38 %25 %
37.5 %≈ 36′Empathy54 %44 %34 %41 %
42.5 %≈ 41′Empathy46 %33 %26 %43 %
47.5 %≈ 46′Tension44 %36 %25 %26 %
52.5 %≈ 50′Tension48 %45 %31 %15 %
57.5 %≈ 55′Disturbing55 %53 %45 %16 %
62.5 %≈ 60′Tension70 %69 %60 %26 %
67.5 %≈ 65′Tension75 %71 %64 %34 %
72.5 %≈ 70′Relief70 %61 %64 %42 %
77.5 %≈ 74′Disturbing75 %69 %66 %45 %
82.5 %≈ 79′Tension78 %75 %57 %38 %
87.5 %≈ 84′Tension70 %56 %43 %41 %
92.5 %≈ 89′Melancholy55 %24 %21 %39 %
97.5 %≈ 94′Melancholy42 %7 %5 %27 %
Cinderella

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

SB
Sergei Bodrov Jr.

Danila Bagrov

SP
Svetlana Pismichenko

YK
Yuriy Kuznetsov

"German" Hoffman

MZ
Mariya Zhukova

Kat

SM
Sergey Murzin

"Krugli"

IR
Irina Rakshina

Zinka

IS
Igor Shibanov

Policeman

AF
Andrey Fedortsov

Stepan

VE
Vladimir Ermilov

Pavel Evgrafovich

AG
Anatoliy Gorin

Svetlana's Neighbor

AK
Andrey Krasko

Apartment Owner

VM
Vitaliy Matveyev

Double-Barrel Gun Owner

DK
Denis Kirillov

Market Bandit

AZ
Anatoli Zhuravlyov

Nervous Bandit

SA
Sergey Astakhov

Trucker

AA
Artur Arutyunyan

Caucasian Guy in Trolley

IL
Igor Lifanov

Bandit

TZ
Tatyana Zakharova

Mother

AP
Aleksey Poluyan

Viktor Bagrov (Voice) / Mole"

Details

Type
Movies
Released
1997
Runtime
96 min
Country
Russia
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.7 · 29,695 ratings
Feels mostly
Tension
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