This movie is about the stern gangster customs of one of the Russian provincial cities in the mid-90s . And you could expect either a stupid game of blind man's buffets or a truly bloody showdown with the stacks of "bluffers".
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| Aleksey Panin | ... | Sergey | |
| Dmitriy Dyuzhev | ... | Simon | |
| Nikita Mikhalkov | ... | Sergey Mikhaylovich | |
| Sergey Makovetskiy | ... | Koron | |
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Anatoliy Zhuravlyov | ... | Bala |
| Grigoriy Siyatvinda | ... | Eggplant | |
| Viktor Sukhorukov | ... | Stepan | |
| Aleksey Serebryakov | ... | Doctor | |
| Garik Sukachyov | ... | Brain | |
| Andrey Panin | ... | Architect | |
| Kirill Pirogov | ... | Executioner | |
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Yuriy Stepanov | ... | Boar |
| Renata Litvinova | ... | Waitress, Secretary | |
| Zhanna Bolotova | ... | Teacher | |
| Tatyana Dogileva | ... | Secretary | |
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Blindfolds - an old Russian game: leading, blindfolded, catches the rest of the players. Nizhny Novgorod. Two small bandits Serega and Simon worked for a big criminal Sergei Mikhailovich. But this time they failed the mission: he ordered to bring a chemist who claimed that he made a new portion of white powder, and Serega and Simon staged a real carnage in the laboratory, leaving there dead bodies - a chemist and a couple of his guards. Sergei Mikhailovich was very angry, but limited himself to oral suggestion, after which he gave the guys another assignment: to go to the law firm and exchange a suitcase with money for a suitcase with heroin. But even here Serega and Simon were unlucky: the exchange took place, only at the exit from the office they were met by Koron, Bala and Eggplant - three bandits hired by the senior police lieutenant Stepan, a "werewolf in uniform", dreaming to throw Sergei Mikhailovich on big dough. Written by Oskarzhan
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The movie shows how modern authority figures gained their power and capital. A lot of them came from not so clean jobs and the movies shows details of that.
Two guys - Simon (Duzhev) and Sergey (Aleksey Panin) - are working for a local mobster (Mikhalkov) as negotiators (extortion specialists actually) and killers. They are not brain surgeons and are quick to pull out a gun, which always puts them in different awkward situations. Considering there are competitors such as crooked cop, local dumb criminals and other low-life element, Simon and Sergey are in for a fun ride... Expect lot of gunshots and a sea of blood.
The movie has gathered a great number of Russian cinema stars even in episodic roles (Andrey Panin is an architect, Andrey Krasko is an unlucky neighbor, Dmitriy Pevtzov is a drug-dealing lawyer, etc.), which makes the movie so much fun to watch. Under a virtuoso management of the director Aleksey Balaganov all characters are simply dumb and extremely standardized, which makes it look like a joke.
Just like Guy Ritchie's movies this one can not really be taken too seriously. On the other hand it's too much dark humor and too much blood to be considered a comedy.
Just keep in mind that it is a true biography of some today's Russian politicians. Perhaps, that will leave you thinking.
p.s. "The Russian Ethiopian" is absolutely hilarious!