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Zerograd

Original title: Gorod Zero
1988 · 1 h 43 min
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov · Russia / USSR · Soviet Poetic Cinema
ComedyDramaMystery

Cast

Leonid Filatov Oleg Basilashvili Vladimir Menshov Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Evgeniy Evstigneev Aleksey Zharkov

Credits

Written by: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy

Plot

A Moscow engineer arrives in a provincial town for a business trip and finds a surreal world of strange events and ghosts, in a Kafkaesque, comic fantasy.

Sinekatalog’s take

A surreal and funny Kafkaesque comedy.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (3,150 votes)
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