Meet the real-life ‘Hardcore Henry.’ (He fights Russian politicians, it turns out.)

Earlier this month, along a scenic backroad outside Moscow, a motorist and a motorcyclist got into a fight. The latter, it so happens, was wearing a helmet-mounted camera, providing first-person footage of the entire scuffle. The resulting video is almost indistinguishable from the recent action movie “Hardcore Henry,” filmed in Russia and entirely in the first-person, like a video game. Uploaded five days ago, the video of the Moscow road incident now has more than 2.3 million views on YouTube.

Warning: the video below features real-life violence. If this sort of thing upsets you, consider watching this video about kittens, instead.

The fight began when the motorcyclist turned onto a road, cutting off an oncoming Lexus. The driver of the Lexus then pulled up alongside the motorcyclist, shouting obscenities. He then stepped out from his car, not even shutting off the vehicle (which continued rolling forward). Despite landing the first few blows, the driver proved to be no match for the man on the motorcycle, who ultimately overpowered his attacker.

The driver of the Lexus, it turns out, was Alexey Bolshedanov, a former candidate in the primaries for the political party United Russia. Party officials were quick to point out that Bolshedanov lost his primary race. “He's certainly not a deputy in our party. He's an entrepreneur from outside Moscow,” United Russia said in an official statement.

On June 8, the Russian TV network Rossiya 1 aired a report about the incident, presenting the fight as though Bolshedanov were the victim of an attack. The television channel never mentioned Bolshedanov's party membership or profession, featuring an interview with him, where he said he narrowly avoided a road collision. The show's narrator then said, “Cuts and bruises are what followed. Nobody even thought to call the police. Punishing aggressive behavior on the road is long something we've become accustomed to handling ourselves, in the moment.”

Rossiya 1 failed to mention that Bolshedanov tried to “punish” the camera-wearing motorcyclist. The network also declined to report the motorcyclists' claim that Bolshedanov was driving while drunk.