Siberian This film - a lie from the first to the last frame. This book - a lie from the first page to the last. Bender - a city in Ukraine. A citizen of Ukraine can not fight in Chechnya. This film - a lie from the first to the last frame. This book - a lie from the first page to the last. Bender - a city in Ukraine. A citizen of Ukraine can not fight in Chechnya. This film - a lie from the first to the last frame. This book - a lie from the first page to the last. Bender - a city in Ukraine. A citizen of Ukraine can not fight in Chechnya. This film - a lie from the first to the last frame. This book - a lie from the first page to the last. Bender - a city in Ukraine. A citizen of Ukraine can not fight in Chechnya.

healingart In the 1930s Stalin moved the members of the Siberian mafia from their homeland to Transnistria at the periphery of the Russian empire in order to weaken them by eradicating them from their homeland. Siberian criminals settled down around the river Dniester and, predictably, soon successfully resumed their activities. What is striking about these criminals – the honest criminals, as Lilin refers to them – is their code of honour. Siberian criminals do not deal either in drugs or prostitutes; they pay the highest respect to women (particularly pregnant women), to children and orphans, and to their elders; they consider the mentally and physically disabled or handicapped as being endowed with a special gift from God ("God-willed", as they describe them). The so-called Siberian Education is a special upbringing that brings together their criminal code and the Orthodox tradition implying, among other things, never mentioning the name of God or of the Holy Mother in vain. Furthermore, respect for the freedom of every living thing, humility, and simplicity are the basis of the Siberian criminal life. As young Kolima (the author's nickname) soon learns by listening to and watching his fellow rascals of Low River, in the city of Bender, "respect, courage, friendship, loyalty" play a pivotal role within this restricted society. All these values seem to hint at the pervasiveness of religion in the Siberian criminal community. Paradoxically enough for people used to manoeuvring pikes (flick-knives), rifles, guns, Kalashnikovs, the sacredness of life is at the centre of everyday practice. As Lilin puts it, "Our philosophy of life has a close relation to death; children are taught that taking someone else's life or dying are perfectly acceptable things, if there is a good reason".[1] Thus, children from a small age are accustomed to watch their parents killing small animals; later, they are given the opportunity to kill small animals themselves and to practice with their knife on the carcasses of bigger animals, like pigs or oxen. By the age of thirteen or fourteen the apprentice criminal might have one murder to his name. This is not at all perceived as dishonourable, since it does not imply vices such as sadism or cowardice. Even hunting in the woods is seen as a purification ritual "which enables a person to return to the state of primal innocence in which God created man".[2] Siberian criminal society is highly ritualized, and strict and severe rules codify almost every aspect of everyday life, from killing to sipping your tea, to choosing a tattoo.

Daniel B Lots of thing will seem familiar in this one, including the sympathetic criminals with a strict moral code, the conflict between the brothers. There isn't much depth in the characters, the flashback scenes are just there for the sake of telling the story.But there's one thing why should see this movie: everything is just so elaborately made in it. The sets, the cinematography, the dialogues show a huge amount of works. And Salvatore's directing can make even the most pretentious scenes effective. Among the actors, there's no difference between the young Litvanian ones and stars like Malkovich, they're all great. (The only thing that bothered me was the forced and unrealistic Russian accent.)It's less about its characters and more about guilt and morals, but it's atmosphere makes you forget about all of the weaknesses. It's not really original, but the atmosphere makes it a unique film.

grace-107-245580 Shame on you, those ignoramuses who believe in Lilin's fairy-tails. Bears on snowy streets, everyone with earflaps and balalaika, vodka's drinking everywhere, and now this: Urka community. LOL. Lilin fools you guys. And you, John Malkovich.. Oh my Siberian God! Although watching we had a lot of fun. But the fact that this foolish fantasy is a bestseller is very disappointing. I thought western audience is smarter.Here author's Russian friends wonders his crazy fantasy: He loved to invent all sorts of stories, no one really paid any attention to it, the usual dreamer, only girls and believed his tales. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1781720