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Brigada (), also known as Law of the Lawless, is a Russian 15-episode crime television miniseries that debuted in 2002. It became very popular in Russia and ex-Soviet countries as well as Eastern Europe, but received criticism for positive portrayal of criminals and aestheticization of violence. The miniseries follows the story of four best friends from 1989 to 2000, and follows their rise in the world of crime from a local gang of petty thugs to a true mafia, mainly concentrating on the leader of the group, Sasha Belov, played by Sergei Bezrukov. The fifteen-part miniseries was written by Igo

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Film.name
Brigada
Film.image
Brigada title screen.jpg
Film.caption
title screen
Film.director
Aleksey Sidorov
Film.producer
Valery TodorovskyAnatoly Sivushov
Film.writer
Igor PoroblyovAleksey Sidorov
Film.starring
Sergei BezrukovDmitri DyuzhevVladimir VdovichenkovPavel MaykovYekaterina Guseva
Film.distributor
Beta Film GmbH
Film.runtime
750 min.
Film.country
Russia
Film.language
Russian

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Duration
52
FilmAffinity ID
144279
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publication date
2002-00-00
title
Бригада
number of episodes
15
start time
2002-09-23
number of seasons
1
end time
2002-00-00
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17 sections
Contents
  • Plot
  • Summer 1989
  • Spring 1991
  • Autumn 1993
  • Autumn 1994
  • Spring 1995
  • Winter 1997
  • Winter 1998
  • Winter 1999
  • Winter/Spring 2000
  • Music
  • Criticism
  • Cast
  • Minor roles
  • Sequel
  • References
  • External links

Brigada (), also known as Law of the Lawless, is a Russian 15-episode crime television miniseries that debuted in 2002. It became very popular in Russia and ex-Soviet countries as well as Eastern Europe, but received criticism for positive portrayal of criminals and aestheticization of violence. The miniseries follows the story of four best friends from 1989 to 2000, and follows their rise in the world of crime from a local gang of petty thugs to a true mafia, mainly concentrating on the leader of the group, Sasha Belov, played by Sergei Bezrukov. The fifteen-part miniseries was written by Igor Porublyov and Aleksei Sidorov and directed by Aleksei Sidorov.

== Plot == The series proceeds in chronological order, apart from the scene at the beginning of the first episode before the opening credits, which was taken from Winter 1997.

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