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The Major
Why this pick
Bykov’s tightly wound moral thriller shares The Fool’s furious view of institutional rot, following one ordinary man’s catastrophic compromise with escalating pressure and stark realism.
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MOVIE2014 1h 56m RUS
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A Russian plumber, Dima Nikitin, is also a municipal repair-crew chief and studying building engineering in an unnamed Russian town that is not yet 40 years old. Some of the city’s housing blocks are already in a grave state of disrepair. A burst bathroom pipe in one of the rickety communal housing buildings reveals a much larger problem, as the exterior wall behind the pipe has cracked and started to shift. When Nikitin goes outside to inspect the matter, he realizes the building has fissured from the ground up to the ninth and last floor.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Artyom Bystrov
Никитин
Yuriy Tsurilo
Kirill Polukhin
Матюгин