Gruz 200 (2007)

Gruz 200: Directed by Aleksey Balabanov. With Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov. A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.

“Now I remember why I like attending sneak previews so much. The absence of expectations from the audience. How does a curious movie audience react to the blackest of comedies slash nightmare? When I entered, some 200 people were in the audience. When the movie had ended, some 120 were left. The people who left, did so in the second hour of the movie, after having giggled the first hour. The talent of the filmmaker. I stayed and enjoyed one of the best movie theater experiences ever.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Soviet Union, 1984. That can be displayed even more horrible than you thought. It all starts out kind of cute: a boy with a Russian disco hairdo, a professor in u0026#39;atheismu0026#39;, a captain of the Russian army, an innocent girl. But lemonade glasses of vodka pass through these people. And not everyone is so kind. It results in a fly plague…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt canu0026#39;t get any worse, but it does. And I kept laughing, although without much joy. I witnessed the people leaving around me. And I wanted to shout: Waiter! More Vodka! More! The best black comedy of the year. I even remembered the name after leaving the sneak preview, which is very rare…”