Brother and Brother 2: Danila from St Petersburg to Chicago

Recently discharged after the First Chechen War, Danila Bagrov is sent by his mother to find his older brother Viktor in Saint Petersburg. The arrival scene was filmed at Vitebsky Station, and from here Danila wanders the city and befriends Kat, a party girl. The terminal was the first railway station built in Saint Petersburg and in the whole Russian Empire.

The brothers meet at the Adamini House, on the edge of the Champ de Mars. Viktor, who is secretly an accomplished hitman, passes his assignment to Danila, gives him money to settle in the city and lies that the target has been extorting him. Danila agrees. The building takes its common name from its architect, Adamini.

Danila's first job goes down in a market. Arriving in disguise, he sets off several homemade explosives as a distraction and kills the Chechen, a mafia boss who had seized the place. The scene was shot at the Sennoy market. Sennaya Square grew quickly into the cheapest and most active market in Saint Petersburg. Chased by the bandits, Danila escapes by jumping onto a freight tram.

Location precision: The film puts the killing of the Chechen at the Sennoy market; the pin marks Sennaya Square, not a precise spot.

Hoffman, an elderly homeless street vendor whom Danila rescued from a thug, brings him to a crypt in the Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery to meet his homeless friends. Later Danila carries here the bodies of the bandits he has shot, hides them in the cemetery and asks Hoffman to bury them. The cemetery on Dekabristov Island is known to have existed in 1747.

Brother 2 opens in Moscow, where Danila and two army friends, Ilya Setevoy and Kostya Gromov, are interviewed on TV about their service in the First Chechen War. The scene is set at the Ostankino television centre, though it was finally shot in the studio of the TV-6 programme V mire lyudey. The Ostankino Tower itself stands 540.1 metres high.

Location precision: The film places the scene at Ostankino TV centre, but it was shot in a TV-6 studio; the pin marks the Ostankino Tower.

Danila and Viktor track the banker Belkin to an elite gymnasium where his son studies. Danila pulls him into a private office and interrogates him at gunpoint; Belkin blames the American Mennis, and Danila spares him. The school is the building of the International Foundation of Slavic Writing and Culture in Moscow.

To shake off pursuit, the brothers fly to America separately. Danila lands in New York City, where he buys a cheap car for the road to Chicago; the crew bought the blue Cadillac Coupe de Ville for the film in New York for $1,000. Scenes set abroad were filmed in Brighton Beach, nicknamed Little Odessa, a Brooklyn neighbourhood with a large Russian-speaking immigrant population.

Location precision: The film shows Danila arriving in New York, and the scenes were shot in Brighton Beach; the pin marks the neighbourhood.

Danila reaches Chicago without a car, without a weapon and almost without money, and sits on a bench by the Wabash Avenue drawbridge, waiting for Viktor, opposite the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist. The church is a famous modernist landmark: a concrete building of circular design, with a semicircular auditorium that seats 764.

Location precision: The film waits on a bench by the Wabash Avenue drawbridge; the pin marks the church opposite, not the bench.

Viktor, who flew straight to Chicago, settles in the Ukrainian Village and quickly starts spending his money on entertainment. Belkin has alerted the local Ukrainian mafia to find him. At the end, onlookers at a police line say that a Russian came into a Ukrainian restaurant and shot the local mafia. Viktor is dragged out shouting that he is staying in America.

Location precision: The film sets Viktor's adventures in Chicago's Ukrainian Village, and some scenes were filmed there; the pin marks the neighbourhood.