Banditskiy Peterburg: Baron (2000)
- 2000
- ·262 min
- Actors
- Lev Borisov
- Genre
- Crime·Drama
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
I've found the initial mini-series "Banditskij Peterburg" and its numerous sequels strangely hypnotic as I've watched them on digital cable in the US. Native-speaker spouse and I agree that the acting is over the top for melodrama, but we are both equally powerless to turn away in the face of the superior plotting and sheer Russian Soul coolness of the characters.
I started watching the series when it premiered on "HTB" in Brooklyn. At first, I dismissed it as a complete ripoff from similar American crime dramas but over time, I was intrigued by how well written it actually is.
I'd like to express my feelings about this movie in one word - MASTERPIECE. The casting was so precise, the director made his best film after the "Sobachie serdze" , the scenario, the narrator voice, the operator's work, the song written by so talented composer like Igor Korneluk and ,the best of all, very successful playing of the main characters played by Pevtzov and Drozdova.
