Sisters (2001 film)
- Oksana Akin China: Sweta
- Katja Gorina: Dina
- Roman Agejew Alik
- Tatjana Kolganowa: Natasha, the mother
- Dimitri Orlov: Palich
Unequal Sisters (Russian Сестры, Sjostry ) is a Russian feature from director Sergei Bodrov Sergeyevich. The Mafia Thriller was his first and last film.
Action
Sweta ( Oksana Akin China) and Dina (Katja Gorina ) are half-sisters and can not stand each other. The eight -year-old Dina is spoiled, lives (novel Agejew ), which is a moderate gangster with her mother and father Alik. It makes holidays abroad, taking music lessons and would like to be an actress. Sweta is 13 years old, lives with her grandmother in humble circumstances, because father and mother have let them down. She wants to be sniper in the Russian armed forces.
After Alik is released from jail, the action comes to a head. There he had served his sentence for a robbery. Now his former accomplices ask him to tell them the hiding place of the loot from the robbery. Should he not do it, they threaten, they would kidnap his daughters. Dina is hidden in another apartment. Her older sister to take care of them. When the mobsters make the hiding place, he manages to escape the two girls. While her father tried to settle his affairs, they go without money to escape through St. Petersburg's suburbs. They must overcome their mutual dislike and learn the value of kinship solidarity.
Quote
"When you're eight years old, the world is against you. If you're 13 years old, you're against the world. "
Connection to the brother movies
The film is regarded as the unofficial third part of Russia hugely successful movies brother 's brother and the brother 2, in which director Sergei Bodrov Jr.. a few years earlier played the lead role. In addition to the related title for it speaks the re- settlement of the action in the gangster milieu and a guest appearance as a Bodrov connected with the Mafia, charming nouveau riche Russian. It remains open whether Bodrov again Bagrow Danila, the protagonist of " brother " movies plays.
Awards
The film was awarded as the best debut film at the film festival in Sochi Kinotawr the Grand Prix; Oksana Akin China and Katja Gorina got there each performer a price. On the Norwegian Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival 2002, the plant also won the Don Quixote Prize.