Gorod Zero (1988)

Gorod Zero: Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov. With Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock u0026 roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.

“This movie is a fable of our life – we eventually – every single of us – few exceptions happen, arrive to unknown place and get trapped there to never – most of us break free. And the rest of our life we spend watching without any disbelief at idiocy and absurd around us and abandoning any hope to take a train to Moscow. This movie is Checkovu0026#39;s Cherry Orchard retold in todayu0026#39;s words with memory of absurd history of XX cent. So sweet for a Western heart explanation of Soviet system as u0026quot;oppressive communist regimeu0026quot; has nothing to do with reality – oppression was not coming from KGB, it was in the hopeless idiotism, status quo, absolute stagnation. Sci Fi experiment, the one word which describes the life in USSR is u0026quot;boringu0026quot;. We know that without sensory inputs, deprived of them our brain starts to generate illusions. This is what you see in this u0026quot;movieu0026quot;, I put it in commas because for me it is not a fiction movie, it is a documentary.”