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TOP-10 documentary comedies
TOP-10 documentary comedies
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Artdocfest
Artdocfest
October 08, 2018
Filmmaker Vladimir Kozlov observes the sometimes-extreme lengths the residents of Yuri Gagarin's hometown will go to in an attempt to commemorate his legacy.
Gagarinland
9
Vladimir Kozlov
France, 2011
86 min
Russian
English
Everything that can happen on Russian roads is accurately and impartially recorded by the DVR cameras that are in almost every car in the country. The super-objective video vividly conveys the Russian national character and color: the constant expectation of a miracle and the anticipation of life's drama. The burning forest here becomes a symbol of the “Russian hell”, a military tank at the car wash is a guide to the world of absurdity and good humor, and a video made near the Kremlin on the evening of the murder of Boris Nemtsov reminds us that evil is always somewhere nearby. There are many other crazy, funny and tragic moments that await us on the road of life.
The road movie
8
Dmitriy Kalashnikov
Belarus, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016
60 min
Russian
English
Oleg Mavromatti's film is an absolutely new genre of audiovisual work. It is made entirely from Internet footage, but at the same time it has a very bright, very individual rhythm, peculiar only to Oleg, and a way of organizing the artistic fabric. The protagonist is a real person who tries to find himself in a virtual environment by publishing his video diaries. We see how his consciousness dissolves in the media space, in which there is no death, which means there is no life. This existential drama about human loneliness makes the viewer look inward and see the abyss of media propaganda. The tape was awarded as the Best Documentary at the National Film Festival of Debuts "Movement" -2015.
Fools don't belong here
8
Oleg Mavromatti
Russia, Bulgaria, USA, 2015
82 min
Russian
English
A Christmas story about two outsiders who find each other, a couple who play Santa Claus and Snow Maiden at kindergarten Christmas trees.
Holy moly
9
Sergey Raevskiy
Russia, 2001
Russian
Carlos was just born. He is the sweetest boy for grandmother, although she is sorry that he was born dark. Grandpa wants to drink to Carlos' health, to celebrate an event, but he is not allowed. It's Carlos' first New Year and I made a movie for my son to remember.
Film for Carlos
9
Renato Borrayo Serrano
Russia, 2017
31 min
Russian, Spanish
Russian
An adventurous comedy, the main characters of which are real Russian politicians, two leaders of the organization "Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region". They are plotting a trip to Nepal, where the civil war has recently ended, in order to reconcile the two opposing communist parties of that country and, thereby, hasten the advancement of equality and brotherhood throughout the world. Initially, the information about the trip was invented by them as a "newspaper duck" to draw attention to themselves and their organization. But, by coincidence, they really had to go to Nepal.
Nepal Forever
8
Alena Polunina
Russia, 2012
95 min
Russian
Members of the Society of Amateur Canary Breeders are all male. On Sunday afternoon, they come to Moscow from different parts of the country, united by a single desire to win a canary singing competition.
Russian canary
9
Ekaterina Eremenko
Russia, 2003
58 min
Russian
Denis and Ekaterina are going to get married. They still have so much to understand, namely, on which finger the ring is put on, what items will be in the wedding contract, and also that it is impossible to become spouses without the traditional rite of blessing by parents. They want to hold a celebration in European style, but relatives insist on a loaf and traditional competitions with collecting money in sliders. You will see what a real Moscow wedding really is and what the spouses really do immediately after the end of the event.
Wedding pas de deux
8
Denis Zaycev
Russia, 2014
24 min
Russian
Chronicle of the casting for participation in the Israeli project "Cabaret". Russian repatriates, many of whom came to the capital from other cities, talk about themselves, then rehearsals and the only performance of the emerging theater follow. Dreaming of a theatrical career, people gradually transform and become real actors.
Scene
9
Petr Mostovoy
Israel, 2005
54 min
Russian
The truck driver Valerka and his partner were instructed to drive a fifty-ton transformer from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The men famously got down to business, but did not reach Moscow, halfway through the transformer fell off the truck. So the poor fellows got stuck by the road, waiting for the authorities, guarding valuable cargo from scrap metal hunters. For many months, Kostomarov and Kattin periodically visited Valerka, recording his stories about how he spends time guarding the transformer.
Transformer
8
Pavel Kostomarov, Antoine Cattin
Russia, 2003
16 min
Russian

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