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Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Truthful to tiniest details
They often say that German excessively darkens Stalin era. In reply I would mention that the movie was shot in my native city of Astrakhan in 1978 - on the 61st year of communist ruling. All those nightmare buildings are not stage constructions, those are buildings where people still live. All those freaks are not crowd scene actors - they are real population of the district close to Astrakhan jail. It would be very one-sided to bound the idea of the movies to critics of totalitarianism. For me it is one of the greatest attempts to answer question like -what makes people live? -why one can loose all the desires? -can you stand when everything around makes you vomit? The set of actors is great.
Bakenbardy (1990)
Actual Political Satires
A movie starts as funny story of two freaks suggesting a gang of power lifters to create a club of Poushkin (classical Russian poet of 19th century) and clean-up mother-Russia of punks and useless people but very soon /Spoiler/ turns into thrilling story of a fascist putsch. Sort of reminder how easily one can manipulate youngsters with "ideals" and "patriotism". Not about Hitler-Jugend or Hóng Wèibīng, but quite actual for modern Russia with "Nashi" youth movement . Cult Russian director Mamin brings that time unknown Victor Sukhorukov (now Russian star) to wide screen. "Bakenbardy" is an "American History X" if made by Sasha Baron Cohen.