Original title: Город Зеро / Zero City
Year: 1988
Country: Soviet Union
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 850066568033
Image: 1.37:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: Russian - Stereo
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Unrated
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Synopsis:
Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, director Karen Shakhnazarov's surreal 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. He's quickly drawn into the investigation of the suicide (or possibly murder?) of a local restaurant chef, Nikolaev – who may (or may not) be Varakin's missing father. 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 not available. Along the way we're treated to a bizarre and wonderful sideshow of non sequiturs out of a Wes Anderson film, including an underground museum filled with a thousand years of real and imagined Russian history (“Here's the pistol with which Urusov shot the False Dimitry II.”) Frozen in time, frozen far beneath the surface, the waxwork figures are strangely beautiful and forlorn, like Shakhnazarov's marvelous and enigmatic satire of Soviet bureaucracy. With music by the great Eduard Artemyev (SOLARIS, STALKER).
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