 Despite mixed reviews from critics, Brake received enormous praise for his performance and was nominated for the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actor, losing to Stephen Lang for "Don't Breathe".In 2017, Brake appeared as Medved in "Bitter Harvest" and as Tarasov in "The Death of Stalin".Although both films focused on Soviet revolutionary and dictator Joseph Stalin, the former was more preoccupied with the Holodomor.