Mournful Unconcern / Anaesthesia Psychica Dolorosa / Skorbnoye beschuvstviye / Скорбное бесчувствие (1983 – 1987) DVD5
on January 6th, 2016 at 11:47
An insane adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House. Originally, the play is about a group of cultured but priggish, silly, bumbling people who go to a party while WWI breaks out, thus making fun of British society and leadership as the world comes to an end. The movie features some lunatics who blab randomly about any subject including their marital intentions, dynamite, ideals and politics, have strict rules about kimonos, dance in silly ways, hide in a moss-covered river in masks, sleep in a baby's crib, perform an ad-hoc autopsy, play with their weird pets, talk to their piano, play naked hide-and-seek, etc. All the while there is a war going on right next to their house and this is spliced together with documentary footage of Mr Shaw, war footage, footage of wild African nature and culture.
DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:32:03 | 4.34 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English, Italiano
Genre: Drama
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast: Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Alla Osipenko, Tatyana Yegorova, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Country: Soviet Union