''Russia 88'' (russian: Россия 88, Rossiya 88) is a 2009 Russian

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film directed by Pavel Bardin about

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. It was screened in the Panorama section at the

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. Director Pavel Bardin won the Discovery of the Year

Nika Award The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars. History The award was established i ...

for the picture. In the film, members of a gang called Russia 88 are filming propaganda videos to post on the Internet. After a while, they become accustomed to the camera and stop paying attention to it. The leader of the gang, Spike, discovers that his sister is dating a Southern Caucasian man. This family drama develops into a tragedy. The movie has no ending credits, but a list of people killed by skinheads in Russia in 2008 at the end, playing over silence.

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