Khrustalyov, My Car! / Khrustalyov, mashinu! / Хрусталев, машину! (1998) DVD9

1953, somewhere in a nocturnal, wintry Russia: ominous black cars patrol the streets; every flat contains a spy; and a paranoid Stalin is dying, yet still orchestrating his infamous "Doctor's Plot" purge, which imprisoned and killed many predominantly Jewish doctors. Into this real-life terror plunges Alexei Guerman's mesmerizing, unrelenting film maudit, which follows a military doctor living obliviously on the edge of doom—until, that is, a knock on the door arrives. Visually and aurally manic, with every frame crammed full of people and objects and a camera constantly on the move across apartments, streets, and trains, Khrustalyov thrusts viewers deep into a collective nightmare where—befitting the times—meaning barely exists, only hallucinations and chaos. Indeed, Khrustalyov is arguably not a film, but a frenzied state of mind, and one of the most astounding, exhilarating works of nineties cinema.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 02:19:42 | 5.89 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Aleksey German
Cast: Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Dementyev
Country: Russia, France
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