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Freight 200 (2007)

Original title: Gruz 200

dir: Aleksey Balabanov

The film revolves around events of political turmoil within Russia during the dissolution of the Communist Government. Artem (Leonid Gromov), a Professor of "Scientific Atheism" at the Leningrad university is visiting his brother, a highly placed army official, in a small neighboring town. His brother's teenage daughter shows up with an unknown friend called Valery, who turns out to be a heavy partier. Valery later sets off with a female student named Angelika (Agniya Kuznetsova) who is the daughter of a high-ranking Communist official. In search for more alcohol, Valery brings her to a farm of moonshiners. The man who seems to be the owner, a convicted murderer, argued with the Professor in a previous altercation about retribution from sins and his belief in God. Behind the scenes a stranger, a housewife named Antonina (Natalya Akimova), and a Vietnamese farmer work communally at the farm. In a previous scene, the Professor's car breaks down, where he visits the isolated farmhouse of which he gets help by the Vietnamese farmer. The professor denounces god, hampering the faith of the drunk murderer, of which afterwards Valery stops by with his temporary date. The political atmosphere of the film depicts a transference from normality to paranoia as the plot thickens.

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