Summaries

In future Moscow, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.

The film starts with documentary-style flashbacks showing Misha's rise to a powerful marketing executive. Now in Moscow 2017, Misha is a powerful marketing executive working to spread Western brands, and like the businesses he works for nothing will stop him in his greed, until the imprisonment and death of an overweight girl undergoing extensive plastic surgery to become skinny. Following a vision in which Misha sacrifices a heifer to God, he begins to receive strange visions depicting the brands control over people. He returns to work and guided by these visions, Misha attempts to stop the growth of the brands in post-Communist Russia by encouraging the brand to attack each other in their advertising campaigns. There is some debate whether Misha believes that the worship of global brands is Idolatry and his visions depicting the brands are controlling people causing them to sin, or whether his belief is that monopoly is evil and his intention is to create a Western style free-market economy.

Details

Keywords
  • hallucination
  • fast food
  • hamburger
  • advertising agency
  • constellation
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Fantasy
  • Sci-Fi
  • Drama
Release date Sep 6, 2012
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin Russia Bulgaria
Language English Russian
Filming locations Russia
Production companies Bomar OOD Mirumir

Box office

Gross US & Canada $353513
Opening weekend US & Canada $240589
Gross worldwide $4227984

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 52m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

BRANDED is a dark and mind-bending sci-fi thriller into a surreal, dystopian society where mega corporations have unleashed a monstrous global conspiracy to get inside our minds and keep the population disillusioned, dependent and passive. One mans quest to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with the hidden forces that really control our world.

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