Five Soviet directors, one chaotic almanac — absurdism meets bureaucracy in the most 1986 way possible.
An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".
Direction
Five wildly different directorial voices clash beautifully.
Writing
Mishin's dry absurdism translates perfectly to screen.
Director
Sergey Baranov
Viktor Bychkov
Boris Toporkov/Bob (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Olga Samoshina
Luiza - inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Yuri Aroyan
inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Aleksandr Vidgop
inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Rashel Gedalyova
ekskursovod-perevodchik (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Sergei Losev
master na fabrike igrushek (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Sergey Okman
inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Aleksey Babutskiy
inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Vladimir Vasilyev
(Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Mikhail Georgievskiy
inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Tatyana Zakharova
Nina - stomatolog (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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