Phrases from the film "Dead Man's Bluff"

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- a feature film by Alexei Balabanov in the genre of action and black comedy.

Plot[edit]

In the prologue at an unnamed economic institute, a teacher at a lecture on the topic of accumulation of initial capital touches on the topic of how this very capital in Russia was accumulated in the wild times of the nineties. Oligarchs, financial pyramids and, finally, the activities of criminal structures are mentioned. And then the film begins, which is a conventional illustration of the teacher’s lecture.

The mid-1990s, the apogee of that very picturesque time. In the extremely gloomy setting of the morgue, a bandit nicknamed the Executioner interrogates the victim, approaching his work with all the love. But his affectionate conversation with his ward is interrupted by faceless thugs. One of them, however, turns out to be not so faceless. The executioner immediately recognizes him as a certain cop, which causes a quick shootout, as a result of which only this same cop survives. He leaves the morgue with a note found on the Executioner, information from which he will further rely on, carrying out rather dangerous frauds.

Next, three bandits, nicknamed Coron, Bala and Eggplant, nervously smoking near the stadium, discuss their far from rosy prospects. And then they receive a call from the same cop (a corrupt policeman named Stepan Voronov) with an invitation to visit the zoo and negotiate a mutually beneficial deal there. Finally, after this we meet the main characters. There are two of them - Seryoga and Simon (aka Semyon). The guys drive around in a cool car and talk about all sorts of different things. The very first acquaintance with them coincides with their fulfillment of a very important task from their patron, the authority of Sergei Mikhailovich (or simply Mikhalych), who controls the entire drug trade in the city. The guys must involve in cooperation in the form of paid “protection” for a chemist nicknamed Doctor, who produces drugs in artisanal conditions. The Doctor does not appreciate the generous offers, Sergei and Simon are offended by his rudeness, and all this results in another shooting, which gives birth to three new corpses (not counting the burry gopnik, who was killed on the street immediately after the main characters left the Doctor’s house). Killing the Doctor was not part of the boss's plans. And in order to appease the latter, the protagonists collect heroin that is not stained with the chemist’s blood. Mikhalych is still upset by the stupidity of his charges, but for now he forgives them and lets them go in peace. The guys go on vacation and hang out in the billiard room, where they discuss how best to spend the evening. They barely had time to resolve this issue when Mikhalych calls them again. It turns out that at that time he managed to visit the morgue, where he saw the consequences of someone’s interference in his affairs - the corpse of the Executioner. And the main characters will have to exchange a suitcase with bucks for a suitcase with heroin from lawyer Borschansky. But they fail to cope with this task either - at the exit from the office they are targeted at gunpoint by yet another faceless thugs who take their suitcase. They are Coron, Bala and Eggplant, contracted to lead a double (as it turns out, triple) game of cops to “throw” our heroes. Mikhalych, in turn, had already figured out who cheated him and where the information came from, and, having checked the heroes one more time, for the sake of formality, he ordered to “press” and “use” the cop, and then pick up the heroin.

At the same time, wanting, in turn, to ditch Coron and his gang, the cop puts Coron’s longtime enemy, a thief in law nicknamed the Brain, on their trail. Then he is overtaken by the main characters, tries terribly with them, confesses everything and is killed. Simon and Seryoga drive their car to the apartment where the poor fellows from the Corona gang are hiding. They already realized that they were in big trouble. The cop, who misinterpreted the information from the note found on the Executioner, led them to a suitcase with drugs, although he promised them money. The guys feverishly figure out how to get out of this shit, then go their separate ways on various matters. Only Eggplant is temporarily left in the apartment, and the protagonists find him. They beat him and mock him, but the black man bravely holds on, although he squeals in pain. Along the way, the men destroy the Brain and his “bulls” who looked into the same apartment in order to deal with Coron. And finally, Coron himself shows up at the apartment along with Bala. They try to lie, play around and cry, but, unlike Eggplant, they quickly crack and tell where the heroin is. Seryoga’s mood, according to him, improves sharply, and he gives losers a chance. They must play Russian roulette, which Sergei himself for some reason calls “zhmurki” (a reference to the slang word “zhmur”, meaning a dead man). None of the poor guys wins in this game, and they all turn into those very blind people. They never managed to attract Eggplant to participate in the attraction - he breaks out of his bonds and shoots at Sergei. Naturally, he was shot by Simon, but he did his job. Seryoga is wounded; it is unknown how to treat him. However, Simon finds a way out of the situation and calls a friend of his, a student at the medical institute, Lyoshik, as a doctor. An extremely dubious-looking doctor with a punk mohawk, snorting cocaine, nevertheless puts Seryoga on his feet and leaves with two hundred dollars in his pocket. Seryoga, apparently having been in the next world mentally, decides to change his life and “get out of his comfort zone.” Namely, on the advice of his “rising” sidekick Kaban, to ditch Mikhalych and go to. That's what he does.

Next is the epilogue. In which it is shown that Seryoga was right. 2005. He and Simon became deputies, and sit in an office with windows overlooking Red Square. While their former boss works in the same building as a watchman. This is how the gangster saga ends.

Actors and characters[edit]

• Seryoga
  or
  Sergei Alexandrovich
  (
  Aleksey Panin
  ) is the most talkative and active member of the duo of main characters, positioned as the brains of the team. Cynical and rude, a typical brother in a tracksuit and a chain, at the same time a patriot and a believer. He is baptized at every church he comes across on the way.
• Simon
  or
  Semyon Evgenievich
  (
  Dmitry Dyuzhev
  ) is the second member of the protagonist duo, a strongman. He plays the role of a stupid, evil guy, but at times he turns out to be smarter and more efficient than his colleague. A Westerner, loves comics, foreign rock and McDonald's, dreams of emigrating abroad.
• Mikhalych
  behind the eyes, and in person
  Sergei Mikhailovich
  (
  Nikita Mikhalkov
  ) is the big boss, the leader for whom Seryoga and Simon work. A disgusting fat belly who speaks in a gentle voice and at first glance does not make the right impression. But he has a formidable reputation, and forces all his subordinates to curry favor. At the same time, she spoils her little son Vladik. Although it’s difficult to call him a good father if he drags his son with him to work, that is, to look at corpses and get dirty in blood (the only thing that scares Sergei Mikhailovich is “the mother will scold”).
• Coron
  (
  Sergei Makovetsky
  ) is the leader of a small gang that performs all sorts of slippery things for clients for money. Enterprising, but cautious and even cowardly.
• Bala
  (
  Anatoly Zhuravlev
  ) is a member of the Corona gang, unbalanced, hot-tempered and not particularly smart, with a reputation as a scumbag behind the scenes.
• Eggplant
  (
  Grigory Siyatvinda
  ) is a member of the Corona gang, the only one of the trio whose death can be attributed to a dignified exit. He is of African descent, but considers himself Russian. Other characters call him Ethiopian all the time, even those who see him for the first time (even though the actor playing the role is Zambian by birth).
• Cop
  , aka
  Stepan Voronov
  (
  Viktor Sukhorukov
  ) is a senior police lieutenant who is not shy about working for the gang. He likes to spin complex intrigues, but he himself gets entangled in them, which ultimately destroys him.
• Brain
  (
  Garik Sukachev
  ) is a thief in law, living in a time when the authority of his suit is challenged by a new generation of criminals. So it's no surprise that behind the scenes he becomes the mortal enemy of one of them, namely Corona.
• Borshchansky
  (
  Dmitry Pevtsov
  ) is a dishonest lawman who deals in drugs. Actually, it is his role in the diplomat that becomes the trigger for the main plot.

The remaining characters are not so important to the plot, but are also very colorful.

Phrases from the film "Dead Man's Bluff"

Movie selection, which includes quotes and phrases from the film “Dead Man’s Bluff”:

I am not Ethiopian! I am Russian!

We must respect other people's weaknesses.

- Just don’t look for the extreme! -Why not look? Let's look for the last one!

Why are you happy, you light blue fagot?

And in the bag there are probably gifts for the girl. The girl smokes a lot, travels around the region by car and drinks beer while driving. Not a very good girl...

Do you think they gave me the “Executioner” to drive in vain? No, friend, I’m a professional, I like cutting cadavers.

Don't touch the Russian pies!

Prosak, Seryozha - this is the distance between the vagina and the anus. Even Vladik knows.

What's in your box? Doctor's ears?

Well, the room seems to have been cleared. All that remains is to find out about the pioneer detachment that was here.

So my father spanked me, and what good? I still want to kill him. And someone else at the same time.

Not a very good girl...

Yes, a project is a piece of paper, you can shove it up your ass!

Okay, that's it, guys. They say on TV that the nervous system does not recover.

Let's kill the black man? I don't like them!

It’s easy to figure out where to put it, but there’s nowhere to put it!

Squeeze, cheap!

How can I not worry about Seryozha, if you are out of the blue, at the billiard table? You can find a hole with shit on the table and drown in it!

Hello to you. Why are there so many dead people?

And the truth is: not wizards...

It's clear from a kilometer away that you were a cannibal.

There is too much blood... I don’t like it when there is a lot of blood.

Ddidesign like this

Where is Russia going when freaks like you drive around with flashing lights?!

Yes, there was a time... Do you remember how we defeated the Belozerskys? Aaaahahahaaa!

Mommy will scold you!

Like... No, definitely not washing powder... Invigorates!

Well, that's all... Karachun for you, Tsereteli!

But I believe that children should not be spanked. My father also spanked me - but what good? I still really want to kill him, and someone else at the same time.

We welcome the defenders of the victims of police brutality.

Why are there so many dead people? By the way, it’s really dirty here, thanks for advising me not to take off my shoes.

Seryozhenka, do you know what a “prosak” is? The gap, Seryozha, is the distance between the vagina and the anus. Do you understand?

And if you're going for heroin, you have to be prepared for anything. Even to the point of being taken by surprise.

Don't touch the saint!

A sense of humor is good. It's easier to die with a sense of humor.

— Somehow the Ethiopian won’t come to his senses. - No matter how much of an international scandal it turns out to be. — He said that he was Russian. - I lied...

- What an ass! - Behave yourself. - Okay, okay... But what an ass!!!

- Well, what did you make there? - Coffin. - Whom? - Coffin. - What? Mother will scold you! Yes, you have a whole cemetery!

- Why are you guys still shooting? - What? - And the fact that they don’t shoot anymore. Right now they do business differently, not like your Mikhalych.

— Are we going to steal a car? - No, we'll go on foot. You often started turning on stupid things!

- So, sit and think. Where else should we put a bunch of this crap?! “It’s easy to figure out what to do with it, but there’s nowhere to go!”

- Let's talk about business. - Let's talk... Well, talk! - And our affairs are very bad!!! The money is running out, but there is no work. - Well? - So what? The money is running out, but there are no prospects!

- Beauty! With your accuracy, you should be on the Olympic shooting team. You buried your talent in the ground! - I don’t like sports!

- Now people think that we are completely frostbitten. “Haven’t you thought about it before?” “They used to think that we weren’t completely frostbitten, but now they think that we are completely frostbitten!”

— Why the meeting at the zoo? - So that no one recognizes you!

- Shut up! Don't you see, I think. - I do not see. I'm not an x-ray.

- Hello! - Coke... Potatoes... And a hamburger! — Do you need sauce for your potatoes? - Do not need anything!

- If anything, you’ll go to Ethiopia, but what are we going to do with Bala?? - You already got me with your Ethiopia!! - Ethiopia is not mine!

- I am Russian! - But we don’t have to drive! Russians don't smoke that much. Here Coron and I have a pack each, and you have one and a half, or even two!

- Serezhenka, do you know what a “prosak” is? - No, Sergei Mikhailovich! — The hole, Seryozha, is the distance between the vagina and the anus. Even Vladik knows.

- Now people think that we are completely frostbitten! - You didn’t think about it before!? “They used to think that we weren’t completely frostbitten, but now they think that we’re not completely frostbitten.”

- So, now let’s talk to the Ethiopian football player... - I’m Russian, and I’ve never been to Ethiopia. - Don't drive us! It's clear from a kilometer away that you were a cannibal!

- Well, what does he need? If this is about lave, then I already said: I won’t unfasten it. And there is no need to scare me! I'm scared. So give it what you have and get out! I have a lot to do.

- Why are you being rude? - Why are you bullshiting here?!

- Look, believer! - And what’s wrong? I too am a believer. - And what kind of god do you have in Ethiopia? Voodoo?

- What an ass! - Behave yourself. - Okay, okay. But what an ass!

The collection includes phrases and quotes from the film “Dead Man's Bluff”. Russian film, comedy directed by Alexei Balabanov. Starring Alexey Panin and Dmitry Dyuzhev. The main slogan of the film: For those who survived the 90s.