A movie about two sisters - thirteen year old Sveta, poor and abandoned by her father, who longs to go off and be a sniper in the army, and spoilt eight-year old Dina, doted on by her gangster father...
Acting
Akinshina's feral, wounded performance — she was 15, terrifyingly real.
Direction
Bodrov Jr.'s confident debut, cut short by tragedy.
Writing
Children speak like children, not precocious screenwriter puppets.
Director
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Oksana Akinshina
Sveta
Ekaterina Gorina
Dina
Tatyana Kolganova
Natasha, mama devochek
Dmitriy Orlov
Palych
Kirill Pirogov
Gangster
Aleksandr Bashirov
Seifullin
Andrey Krasko
Dyadya Misha
Tatyana Tkach
Babushka
Vladimir Baranov
Dezhurnyi
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Paren iz dzhipa
Olga Onishchenko
Aunt Zoya
Andrey Semenov
Roman Zhilkin
Igor Kopylov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sergei Bodrov Jr. died in a rockslide just two years after this film, making this his only directorial work.
Released during Russia's post-Soviet gangster capitalism era — the 'New Russians' and their disposable wealth haunt every frame.
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