A hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness..
Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a thing for Russian satire from the thirties. If you go in expecting a lighthearted romp, you're going to hate it. It is weird, it is loud in its own way, and it is deeply strange. It feels like a fever dream directed by someone who had just read way too many political...
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Aleksandr Medvedkin
Harley Knoles
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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you have a thing for Russian satire from the thirties. If you go in expecting a lighthearted romp, you're going to hate it. It is weird, it is loud in its own way, and it is deeply strange. It feels like a fever dream directed by someone who had just read way too many political pamphlets. You spend most of the runtime just trying to figure out why the horse looks so tired. That horse has seen things. The whole thing with the clergy is just relentless. E..."
Lyubov Nenasheva
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Soviet Union
1920 · IMDb —
Harley Knoles
