A truly fascinating rarity from the U.S.S.R., Karen Shahknazarov’s wickedly droll satire proves that the country Reagan called an ‘Evil Empire’ was radically changing in the late 1980s. Half Kafka paranoia and partly a Valentine to American freedoms, it takes the psychological temperature of a society that just plain no longer functions. Leonid Filatov’s unflappable engineer arrives in a rural Russian town and might as well be a Soviet Alice dropped down a rabbit hole — things get crazier and crazier, and nobody wants to let him in on the cosmic joke. The weird tale’s strength is its visual creativity, but it also generates an unexpected affection for its characters, nice people caught in a frustrating system.
Zerograd
Blu-ray
Deaf Crocodile
1988 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 103 min. / Gorod Zero, Zero City / Street Date November 29, 2022 / Available from / 39.98
Starring: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Evgeniy Evstigneev,...
Zerograd
Blu-ray
Deaf Crocodile
1988 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 103 min. / Gorod Zero, Zero City / Street Date November 29, 2022 / Available from / 39.98
Starring: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Evgeniy Evstigneev,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“Resistance is useless! I will make you bow to our mighty chief Kalin.”
Deaf Crocodile’s Russian Fantastika collection Includes the 4K Restorations Of Aleksandr Ptushko Fantasy Films “Ilya Muromets (The Sword & The Dragon)” (1956) and “Sampo (The Day The Earth Froze)” (1959), and 2K Restoration Of Karen Shakhnazarov’s Satire “Zerograd (Zero City)” (1988)
Deaf Crocodile, in association with distribution partner Seagull Films, announced today the acquisition of a trio of celebrated Russian titles. The companies will jointly release 4K restorations of famed Russian fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s stunning 1956 medieval epic Ilya Muromets (The Sword & The Dragon), and his mystical 1959 Finnish/Soviet co-production Sampo (The Day The Earth Froze), as well as a 2K restoration of director Karen Shakhnazarov’s 1988 Kafkaesque satire Zerograd (Zero City). Ilya Muromets and Zerograd will be released in collaboration with legendary Russian studio Mosfilm, which restored them recently. Sampo has been restored by Kavi – the Finnish National Audiovisual Institute.
Deaf Crocodile’s Russian Fantastika collection Includes the 4K Restorations Of Aleksandr Ptushko Fantasy Films “Ilya Muromets (The Sword & The Dragon)” (1956) and “Sampo (The Day The Earth Froze)” (1959), and 2K Restoration Of Karen Shakhnazarov’s Satire “Zerograd (Zero City)” (1988)
Deaf Crocodile, in association with distribution partner Seagull Films, announced today the acquisition of a trio of celebrated Russian titles. The companies will jointly release 4K restorations of famed Russian fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko’s stunning 1956 medieval epic Ilya Muromets (The Sword & The Dragon), and his mystical 1959 Finnish/Soviet co-production Sampo (The Day The Earth Froze), as well as a 2K restoration of director Karen Shakhnazarov’s 1988 Kafkaesque satire Zerograd (Zero City). Ilya Muromets and Zerograd will be released in collaboration with legendary Russian studio Mosfilm, which restored them recently. Sampo has been restored by Kavi – the Finnish National Audiovisual Institute.
- 1/31/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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