Overview of articles
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Silver Heads
A group of scientists performs a unique experiment in a bunker in a mysterious forest. They try to create an ecologically perfect being by crossing…Published on: -
Zero Town
A Muscovite engineer makes a business trip to a provincial town. The journey is strange from the start, but when he has to leave again…Published on: -
The Shoe
Poetic black & white feature about the relationship between the Soviet occupiers and the Latvian population at the height of the Cold War. A shoe…Published on: -
Killer
A beautifully simple and sad story from today’s Kazakhstan. Young man gets into debt by crashing into a Mafioso’s car. To save his young family,…Published on: -
Kavkazskij plennik
Topical and wonderfully photographed anti-war drama based on a story by Tolstoi. In Chechnya rebels take two Russian prisoners of war to a remote mounPublished on: -
Sady skorpiona
Sparkling, masterful début by Kovalov is found-footage compilation of e.g. news items, propaganda material and instruction films.Published on: -
Russkaya ideya
Montage documentary based on screenplay by Kovalov shows the Russian Messianic influence on politics and film in the early years of the revolution.Published on: -
Hagyjállógva Vászka
Burlesque picaresque film is a satire on despotic Soviet bureaucracy. The urban thief Vaska robs the State Bank with a can-opener.Published on: -
Poslednie kanikuli
Alma Ata in 1979: poetic portrait of three ethnically different schoolboys who come into contact with harsh and occasionally incomprehensible urban liPublished on: -
Kontsert dlya krysy
Kovalov’s first feature is a paranoid grotesque picture of the totalitarian Soviet past, based on the life and work of Daniil Kharms.Published on: