Cast
Sergey Bodrov Viktor Sukhorukov Svetlana Pismichenko Mariya Zhukova Yuriy Kuznetsov Vyacheslav Butusov
Credits
Written by: Aleksey Balabanov
Plot
A young veteran, Danila, returns to Saint Petersburg after military service and becomes a hitman for the criminal world, in a defining film of post-Soviet Russia.
Sinekatalog’s take
A cult and defining film of 1990s Russia.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (29,632 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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