Bumer (2003)

• Year: 2003
• Released: 02 Aug 2003
• Country: Russia
• Adwords: 2 wins & 7 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381936/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bumer
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• Available in: 720p,
• Language: Russian
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 110 min
• Writer: Denis Rodimin, Pyotr Buslov
• Director: Pyotr Buslov
• Cast: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Andrey Merzlikin, Maksim Konovalov
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	7.1/10
	82% – Critics
	82% – Audience

Bumer Storyline

The film takes place in Moscow and surrounding small-town areas in 1998 and 1999. Four friends – Kostya, Dimon, Lyokha, and Petya – find themselves pursued by both the mob and the police after a carjacking incident involving Dimon leads to an altercation that results in Lyokha accidentally killing an undercover law enforcement officer. The four men drive out of a Moscow in a black BMW 750iL that was earlier stolen by Dimon and Petya, intending to hide out at a country house (dacha) belonging to a mutual friend. On the way, they receive a coded message from their friend via a radio station call that an ambush is awaiting them at the dacha.The friends change their plans and decide to drive farther into the countryside, toward the house of Kostya’s old friend Slon. On the way to find Slon, the men find themselves in a succession of situations, including an altercation with a gang at a gas station, a fight with a group of truck drivers, a run-in with corrupt cops, and an interaction with a village psychic, among others.The film ends tragically when the four friends get into an argument with one another and decide, as one final act, to rob a local computer store. Their goal is to split the money and then go their separate ways. The robbery does not go as planned. In the ensuring shoot-out with local police, Lyokha and Petya are killed. Dimon, who was supposed to be the getaway driver, takes off without the others, deciding that trying to help would be too risky. He leaves his cell phone and the car in a wooded area and walks away. Kostya is wounded as he tries to flee and is detained.

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Bumer Movie Reviews

A zeitgeist crime movie

The first and maybe best film from Buslov caught a zeitgeist, became a mega-hit and birthed one of the most popular ringtones in Russia.

This is a classic fatalistic gangster movie about small-time Russian criminals from the nineties who accidentally kill an undercover cop and go into hiding on a stolen black BMW.

This film caught the dusk of the nineties, of the gangster anarchy.

The film’s protagonists live by the rules of the nineties, but the rules, the world around them begin to change (part of the change is police and intelligence becoming the dominant “gangs”). The heroes are dinosaurs of the era that is ending but they are not conscious of it.

The whole film can be viewed as a story of new world and new rules marginalizing and destroying the protagonists.

The first half of the film is stronger then the second in my opinion, but all in all this film was made exceptional by unusually natural performances and authentic dialogue compared to other Russian crime movies.

My personal favorite!

I grew up in a different time and films were different too,more of traditional CCCR staff with occasional masterpiece by Tarkovskij)This film I’ve watched already living in Canada and it have resonated deeply in me,as I was still in Russia in the crazy 90-s…and i’ve seen in real life,what most people see only in movies)That’s why Bumer is so amazing:it shows life exactly how it was there and then…Actors doesn’t feel like actors,more like some of my then dead now friends…so many emotions…so long ago…so sad…

Very good and realistic – thumbs up!

Among the host of modern time Russian-made “gangster” movies (think Brat/Brother, Brigada, Antikiller, Zhmurki, etc.) this is by far the most realistic one.

Brigada was very much a fiction movie, and so were both parts of Brother. Antikiller was middle of the road, and Zhmurki was just a parody on them all.

One of the previous reviewers wrote that Bumer shows the life in today’s Russia. This is not true. Bumer shows life as it was in the early to mid- 1990’s (and that was, in fact, the film makers’ stated intent).

The “bratki” (gangsters), the “razborki” (inter-gang negotiations), the language, the extortions, the crooked cops, the truck drivers, the roads, the godforsaken village, the robbery – all are very realistic.

The only downside of the film, to my taste, was a bit too many moralizing scenes. But I still rate it as 10 out of 10.