City Zero / Town Zero / Zerograd / Gorod Zero / Город Зеро (1989) DVD9
on July 27th, 2015 at 10:03
Very Kafkaesque and absurdist Russian satire.
An average middle management type, Aleksei Varakin (Leonid Filatov), travels by train from his Moscow factory to a small town in order to have a meeting with the head of an air conditioner manufacturer. He comes up against a wall of bureaucracy and things that don't work and soon finds he cannot leave.
Odd and irrational events take place around him — he meets a nude secretary when he visits an air-conditioning company, a chef commits suicide after he refuses to eat a cake modeled after his own head, and then he somehow gets entangled in a local fight between Soviet traditionalists and people that want rock'n'roll...
DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:37:03 | 7.77 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Aleksei Zharkov
Country: Soviet Union