Film Кочегар (Kočegar) ‘Juru Api’ dirilis pada tahun 2010 oleh sutradara Aleksey Balabanov. Kočegar menampilkan kisah seorang veteran Perang Soviet-Afganistan yang mengalami PTSD akibat terkena ranjau dan kehidupannya setelah kembali ke Rusia. Film ini menggambarkan kehidupan mafia Rusia di Kota St. Petersburg melalui karakter- karakter film tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana mafia di Rusia direpresentasikan melalui film tersebut. Teori dari Stuart Hall tentang representasi digunakan bersama dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa potongan-potongan adegan serta dialog yang terdapat dalam film dapat merepresentasikan bagaimana mafia Rusia di pandangan masyarakat Rusia.

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The film Кочегар (Kočegar) ‘Juru Api’ was released in 2010 by director Aleksey Balabanov. Kočegar tells the story of a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War who experiences PTSD as a result of being hit by a mine and his life after returning to Russia. This film depicts the life of the Russian mafia in the City of St. Petersburg through the film's characters. This study aims to find out how the mafia in Russia is represented through the film. Stuart Hall's theory of representation is used together with a qualitative descriptive method. The results of the analysis show that the cut scenes and dialogues contained in the film can represent how Russian mafia is viewed by Russian society.