Svetlana Baskova
1965 (59 лет)The Secret Aesthetics of the Martian Spies
Oleg Mavromatti, Svetlana Baskova
Sergey Pakhomov, Aleksandr Maslaev
Martian Spies tells a love story between a boy who pretends to be a terrorist and a young girl, who is the wife of a KGB agent. The boy tells her that he has been hired to shoot the president – Yeltsin. The end is poetic yet addressing the politics of revenge and corruption in Russia. Miners stand in front of their mine, singing a song, which tells the story of contemporary Russian politics.
The Secret Aesthetics of the Martian Spies
Пять бутылок водки
Svetlana Baskova
Vladimir Yepifantsev, Sergey Pakhomov
A constantly vomiting and ranting manager, an abused employee and the lowly, mentally challenged janitors work in a bar. There's constant drinking, self-abuse with a vodka bottle in a scene that looks real, a virgin bride is bloodily deflowered on a bar table, a weeping customer finds happiness in drink and strip-dancing, the employee strip-dances and covers himself in filth, and is then dressed up in the virgin's dress and molested.
Five Bottles of Vodka
Кокки – Бегущий Доктор
Svetlana Baskova
Sergey Pakhomov, Aleksandr Maslaev
A manic insane doctor escapes over the hospital wall and spends most of the movie either ranting and weeping in a hospital or running, babbling about his true love Olga or his surgery practice. Men are obsessed with their frantic careers and various preoccupations, discussing their medical procedures or playing with machines in frantic montages, many men are naked, discussing nudity, vomiting and comparing penises while the women are clothed, a man pulls plums from a woman and squashes them as some obscure symbolic act, there are religious rants, a female Jesus giving food to naked men on the last supper table only to have them vomit, hair is seen as the link to God with women puking hair from their mouths in more insane symbolic scenes, and finally, a bizarre scene of a naked man dancing in pantyhose with a clown.
Cocky – The Running Doctor
Голова
Svetlana Baskova
Aleksandr Maslaev, Sergey Pakhomov
The Soviet Russia of old is an immobile head without a body that appears in various locations, clashing with the morals and sentiments of a modern rich man. This man seeks advise from the head but finds that it is annoyingly unresponsive or unhelpful as it sends him on various missions and tests. At times he uses violence or oral rape to get what he wants until he grows too exasperated. Most of the movie consists of improvised dialogue or rants, and meandering scenes in a weapons shop, a railway, and a meeting where the man performs a bizarre magic performance with chickens, eggs and a cardboard box..
The Head
Одно решение - сопротивление
Svetlana Baskova
Sergey Pakhomov
The film consists of six parts - events in different cities of Russia (Moscow, Tutaev, Yaroslavl, Lipetsk, Togliatti). Rallies organized by independent workers' unions and demonstrations in which young people take part are shown. These are the first, not yet confident attempts to defend their rights.
Resistance is the Only Way
Моцарт
Svetlana Baskova
Sergey Pakhomov, Aleksandr Maslaev
The film is about the complicated and even paradoxical relationships in the world of academic music. The character of Aleksandr Maslaev represents the Maestro, a kind of modern Mozart, wallowing in corruption, plagiarism, and envy. Once a talented composer, he's totally lost his gift and cynically buys new music from young composers, then plays it under his own name. Yet, the Maestro does not close this chain, for everyone pays his debts...
Mozart
