The story unfolding during one day, tells about meanness and eternally difficult female share – The action takes place against the background of the first hits of the young group “Nautilus Pompilios”.

The first professional work of the director Alexey Balabanov.
Course work, he shot during his studies at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors.

Ranshe bylo drugoe vremya (1987).mkv

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U menya net druga is one of the Aleksey Balabanov’s student films. It’s about a couple of girlfriends, still in highschool, one of whom plays all modern and adventurous, and the other one cannot move on to the sexual part of relationship with her boyfriend. One day the boyfriend, as a means of producing an impression on her, takes her to an underground rock concert, where the famous Belkin band is supposed to play, but it so happens that she leaves not with the boyfriend, but with the band.

On the one hand, it’s a typical student film, where lack of life experience and surplus of teenage intemperance shine through every hole. On the other – it’s the product of the epoch, which was perestroika, the agony of soviet communism. The story is relatively interesting, and the acting is good enough, but all in all the film is nothing special, because it is short of the most important thing – the lightness of being, a quality that would come to the director at later stages. Still, it might prove curious for Balabanov fans.

U.menya.net.druga.AKA.I.Have.No.Friend.1988.Aleksey.Balabanov.1080p.WEBRip.AAC.x264.RIYE.mkv

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In this dark, slow-paced and enigmatic film, the title Schastlivye Dni (Happy Days) is definitely a bit on the ironic side. The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.

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A story of jealous love and betrayal that end up decimating a small group of outcaste lepers who have been banished from participation in Yakut community life.

Reka.AKA.The.River.2002.WEB-DL.1080p-Kyle.mkv

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Synopsis
The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.

Schastlivye.dni.AKA.Happy.Days.1991.WEB-DL.1080p-Kyle.mkv

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Synopsis:
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.

Review:
The term Cargo 200 refers to the bodies of USSR soldiers brought home from Afghanistan in the 1980s, but in Aleksei Balabanov’s film of the same name every character seems destined to become Cargo 200, either actually ending up dead or at least ending up in a dead-end quagmire of pointless violence and immoral behaviour. Unflinching would be a gentle word to describe this portrayal of a doomed humanity, but the exact point of the film beyond its doomsday message is never really clear. Unlike other recent excursions into nihilism as expressed through heartless sex and pointless violence (Mortier’s Ex Drummer comes to mind as a recent example), Balabanov’s film never goes beyond stating the obvious.

Gruz 200 caused quite a stir upon its release in Russia and it is easy to understand why. The director of popular features such as Voyna (War) and Pro urodov i lyudey (Of Freaks and Men) here goes overboard for a tale so dark and explicit that even what at first sight appears to be a happy ending actually arrives with an evil and sadistic grin. Perhaps it says something about the human condition, but as the Russian outcry might indicate, it is doubtful a lot of people will want to hear it, much less pay for it to see it.

The film is set during the war with Afghanistan in 1984 but takes place entirely in Russia, in a dreary industrial regional in and around Leninisk. Artem (Leonid Gromov) is a professor of “scientific atheism” whose car breaks down one night when on his way to his mother in Leninisk. He asks for help at a nearby cottage on the heath owned by the god-fearing Aleksei (Aleksei Serebryakov) and his practical wife Tonya (Natalya Akimova), who sell grain spirits.

Unbeknownst to Artem, not much after his serious conversation about the impossibility of both the existence of God or one’s soul with Aleksei and his subsequent departure, his possible future in-law Valera (Leonid Bichevin) shows up at the same cottage to buy some more booze after a night of heavy drinking. With him he brings Angelika (Agniya Kuznetsova), a friend of his girlfriend and the daughter of a highly placed Soviet official.

Their stay at the cottage starts a chain of events that will impact the lives of all in a dramatic way, with the evil and sadistic Captain Zhurov (Aleksei Poluyan) at the heart of the whirlpool of shocking deeds that follow, though all characters are at least partly to blame. At best, characters are reluctant cowards, but most of them are worse. A lot worse.

The film’s shocking final third contains some apocalyptic scenes set in the bedroom of Zhurov. These scenes give the words “torture porn” its two original meanings back and then combines them to disturbing effect. Zhurov’s stone-drunk mother (Valentina Andryukova) apathetically continues to watch Soviet television as her son lives out his absurd fantasies in the adjacent room, likely mirroring the stupor some audience members might find themselves in when watching Gruz 200. Perhaps apathy is the best remedy. Pass the vodka!

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The stoker is a veteran from the Afghanistan war, retired major and hero of the USSR who spends his life in a heating chamber writing a book and trowing coal on the fire. From time to time an old friend , veteran as well , pays him visits to throw in the fire something more than coal.The bales seem to be human bodies but the stoker doesn’t care because his friend tells him they were bad people.
The stoker’s beautiful daughter which lives with him only visits her father to ask him for money. The only interested in his work are two little girls that ask him the most surprising questions.

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