Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1952 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot". (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Aleksei German
Written By: Aleksei German, Pekka Lehto, Svetlana Karmalita, Joseph Brodsky
Starring: Nina Ruslanova, Aleksandr Bashirov, Jüri Järvet, Yuriy Tsurilo, Mikhail Dementyev
AKA: Khrustalyov, mashinu!
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Khrustalyov, My Car! belongs to 8 collections
1. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 38 stars)
2. Post-1960s black & white photography (collaborative: moderated by djross - 21 stars)
3. Best of criticker: Drama (collaborative: moderated by avgcrtckr - 18 stars)
4. 1950s period film (collaborative: moderated by djross - 6 stars)
5. Capsules, guest reviews, list candidates... (366weirdmovies) (collaborative: moderated by sesito71 - 4 stars)
6. High contrast black and white cinematography (collaborative: moderated by juandr - 2 stars)
7. Cannes 1998 Official Selection (collaborative: moderated by djross - 1 star)
8. Djross Russian/Soviet feature films I've seen (public: djross - 1 star)
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nobamba | 30 15th |
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Was expecting a comedy but got depressing realism with violence. Fav scene: the end.
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djross | 65 70th |
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On the simultaneous putrefaction of a nation and its leader, and a literal incarnation of the incomprehensibility of the Soviet narrative from the Doctors's Plot to Beria's first step. While filmed in an extremely impressive way, the relentless scattergun barrage of characters, events and actions is both confusing and wearing, but after the first hour, things settle slightly and it becomes possible to follow along this recounting of history as simultaneously tragic and farcical. Brace yourself.
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| Jan 15, 2019 |  |
Yiannos | 80 92nd |
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An uncharitable review would claim that it's a warm up to the main event (Hard To Be a God) with its grotesque characters behaving bizarrely in long takes captured by German's roving camera, but that would be unfair as it works on its own terms as an over the top farce of Soviet paranoia. Some knowledge of the 'doctor's plot' is necessary to avoid getting completely lost in its labyrinthe 'plot', but German conjures an effectively bleak and claustrophobic atmosphere spiked with corrosive comedy.
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| Average Percentile 66.26% from 76 Ratings |  |