The series "Brigade" by Alexei Sidorov and the films directed by Alexei Balabanov make it possible to understand what Russian society looked like in the 90s. This was stated by the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, Alexander Sholokhov (United Russia).
"To study what happened to us, watching the TV series "Brigade" and Alexey Balabanov's films is even useful. They will help to understand what our society looked like 20-30 years ago. They became iconic for that time. Unfortunately, many then they even caused a desire to imitate the heroes. Today we understand that we are already living in another time and in another country," the parliamentarian told the NSN portal, commenting on the prospect of banning these films in the country.
Sholokhov stressed that the lower house of parliament has mechanisms that help good initiatives not reach idiocy.
"Any good aspiration can lead to idiocy. Remember when "Well, wait!“ they forbade it because the wolf smokes. This cannot be allowed! For these purposes, there is a parliamentary control in the State Duma that monitors similar situations. Accordingly, if alarm signals are received, we will look at and regulate either legislatively or at another level so that such law—making does not exceed the reasonable and useful," the deputy assured.
He added that when trying to create a sterile atmosphere, a society grows up that "at the slightest difficulty begins to perceive them as a complete disaster."
As reported by EADaily, earlier deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Elena Drapeko ("Fair Russia — For the truth") She spoke about Balabanov's films. Many media outlets concluded from her words that such cult films as "Brother" and "Brother-2", as well as the TV series "Brigade" may be banned.
The parliamentarian herself later noted that she was simply misunderstood.
"It was only about the film "Cargo 200". I said that I would not recommend showing it to children and teenagers," Drapeko said.
She stressed that there is no need to ban anything, but it is necessary to determine the age categories for each film.