| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Leonid Filatov |
| Event |
Originally produced by Deaf Crocodile Films in 1988. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery films.
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Foreign films.
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Comedy.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Shakhnazarov, Karen, film director.
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Filatov, Leonid, actor.
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Deaf Crocodile Films (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
14376083 Kanopy |
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