
Anya Krais is a graduate of the Cologne Academy of Media Art, a native of Angarsk. Her film is gloomy, if not black, burlesque. The hopelessness of the Russian province is condensed to the grotesque. Even death puts on a trash cap.

The line of eras and centuries. Once upon a time there were three brothers. The average died in Chechnya. The youngest is an epileptic. Senior Anton returns home from the war to Ivanovo. But the life of the Russian periphery is little like the world. Inhaled politicized homeless people, mentes-scammers, buckets of Jehovah, Chechens, who were untangled from the house, dancing victorious dance in the courtyard of firm five-story buildings. What can you say: the 90s on your wild break. Anton is trying to break through the wall of total longing - to survive the death of his brother. To calm his bride and mother. It is necessary to somehow grow to an unfamiliar ugly world.
The factories are closed, everyone around is strangely adapting to the creeping unknown to the country. Someone is drunk. Someone wanders around the apartments, campaigning to enter into a religious sect. And someone squeezes the property of those who went to war. They look in the mentovka on TV: the former president represents the successor, they say, he chose from twenty applicants, chose the best. You will see. The TV is generally one of the participants in the action. He shows the horrors of Khasavyurt. Scares enemies. He himself is a war on which former brothers and sisters have already become irreconcilable enemies.

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The Chechens who fled to Ivanovo from the war shout heartily: “Give us freedom, Russia! Locate in order, we have our own traditions. ” Jehovah's witnesses patiently go from the door to the door of a multi -sized house with one question: "Do you know who runs the world now?" "Come out of here, American bitch!" - The truly Orthodox, quoting the New Testament at every step yells in response. But there is no rapture: neither in battle, nor in the world, nor in faith. But there is a grandfather rifle twisted in a motley chintz. Once the gun is declared at the beginning of the film - he will certainly shoot ... at the most unexpected moment ... from the hands of the most unexpected character in targets of meaningless life.
This is a movie about people who have lost support, depending on the black gap between the eyelids. They all seem to be still trying to crawl to the surface. Maybe in Germany? To the sect? Put the braces? At the disco? Or vodka "Russian soul" with a scarce sausage? And what? Under Anna Herman “We are a long echo of each other” ... Next to the newly -abstained, heroically fallen, eating pigeons, from an accidental shot.
The film is a farewell to the post -Soviet era. Visual quotes from Balabanov, semantic - from the "Brothers Karamazov". The genre on winged swings is dangled from household comedy to criminal gignol and Camp. A fat roles (sometimes the director should have pacify the actors a little). The work is uneven, but unexpected, alive. Actually, such a reckless, risky, albeit not unmistakable movie and expect from the debutants.
Among the films of the project “New Young Cinema”: the drama “How Vitka garlic driving Lech Skear to the House of the Disabled” Alexander Hunt (awards of festivals in Karlovy Vary, in Vyborg); The tape of the student of Alexander Sokurov Kira Kovalenko about the inhabitants of the mountain Abkhaz village “Sofichka” (prize of the Film Festival “The Spirit of Fire”); one of the best films of the new Yakut wave “Bonfire in the Wind” Dmitry Davydov (three prizes of the Film Festival “Movement”); The film comic about the adventures of the “Tetraramramaton” philosophers Klim Kozinsky, the young director from the “Stanislavsky Electro”, and the Kinotavrovsky debut of this year - “Close” Ksenia Zueva - about the family torn by conflicts.