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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, director Karen Shakhnazarov’s surreal 1988 satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. The more complex and absurdist the mystery becomes, the more poignant and plaintive Varakin’s predicament – “I have to get back to Moscow,” he pleads to no avail. Along the way we’re treated to a bizarre and wonderful sideshow of non sequiturs out of a Wes Anderson film. With music by the great Eduard Artemyev
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Leonid Filatov
Originally produced by Deaf Crocodile Films in 1988
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English