Cargo 200
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 2, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Disinformation
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leonid Gromov, Alexei Poluyan, Alexey Serebryakov, Agniya Kuznetsova & Yuri Stepanov | |
Directed by | Alaxey Balabanov | |
Produced by | Sergei Selyanov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Incredibly perverse and weirdly fascinating look at the Soviet Union in the pre-Glasnost era.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 4/10 --
Mildly compelling, but, essentially, it's just another bland, tedious, pointless version of Hostel with much less blood-and-guts and ultimately leaves you with a bitter aftertaste.
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NYC Movie Guru
Soviet lives are uncomfortable to watch here but as compelling as Richard Widmark's début in 'Kiss of Death' or Tarantino's more graphic one with 'Reservoir Dogs.'
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Art house meets grind house in CARGO 200, Alexey Balabanov's morbidly compelling thriller set in the Soviet Union.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The realism of the cinematography, the pull-no-punches style in the scenes that depict Russia's military as a disenfranchised bunch of thugs and the gumption to toss it into one pot all deliver a robust recipe.
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Boxoffice Magazine
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [T]he realism of the cinematography, the pull-no-punches style in the scenes that depict Russia's military as a disenfranchised bunch of thugs and the gumption to toss it into one pot all deliver a robust recipe.
Box Office
Rating: 1/5 --
A depressing Russian thriller set in 1984 that paints a very unpretty picture of society.
Spirituality and Practice
Product Description:
In the Soviet Union circa 1984, Captain Zhurov (Alexei Poluyan) is a corrupt policeman who lives with his alcoholic mother. When an opportunity to exercise his power comes along one night at a bootlegger's shack, it produces a horrifying series of events in which a local girl, Angelika (Agniya Kuznetsova), is left at his mercy. Alexei Balabanov (BROTHER) directs this caustic black comedy that was a hit in its native Russia.
Product Description:
The title of Russian director Alexey Balabanov's twelfth film is a military term for the coffins transporting dead soldiers back home during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The effects of that decade-long conflict provide a unifying theme for this highly controversial film that recalls the work of Gaspar Noe and Michael Haneke but with a distinctly Russian point-of-view. Cargo 200 begins in 1984 with the introduction of two brothers: a Soviet Army colonel, and the head of the Faculty of Scientific Communism at Leningrad University. The university professor travels to visit his mother in a remote town. When his car brakes down, he stops at a rural farmhouse occupied by a husband, wife and their Vietnamese farm hand. The professor engages in a philosophical argument about the existence of God with the family patriarch, whose heated criticisms of official atheism are fueled by Utopian dreams and vodka distilled in the family barn. Meanwhile, a young man and the daughter of a Soviet secretary of a regional party committee meet at a party. The couple decides to take a drive, and their destination is the rural farmhouse. Lurking in the shadows of the farmhouse is Zhurov, a character vaguely based on Russian serial killer Gennady Mikhasevich. Although Mikhasevich was simply a depraved lunatic, Balabanov presents Zhurov as an emblem of both human perversion and the manifest corruption of the Soviet government. Zhurov’s appearance signals a series of loathsome events that form the rest of the film's narrative. In a Wall Street Journal interview Balabanov spoke of Cargo 200 in the following terms: "I show what filth we lived in. Society was sick from 1917 onwards." In light of Balabanov's remarks, Cargo 200 might best be summarized as a grim epitaph for the death of the former Soviet Union.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 91,570
- UPC: 826262005092
- Shipping Weight: 0.22/lbs (approx)
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