Cargo 200

Film - 2007

7,5

69.7K

Cargo 200 it's a movie with Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksei Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Leonid Bichevin Full cast. Directed by Aleksey Balabanov. Original title Груз 200 Genres Drama, Thriller, Foreign.

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Cargo 200 is a very crude fresco of a humanity on the ropes, attacked everywhere by the virus of decadence and conformism. In the context of a society that is violently retreating and of individuals who stand as the sovereign measure of all values, Balabanov delivers a ferocious punch in the stomach of the Western spectator. This is how the idols of a world, of an organized system, die. The Russia of the 80s is collapsing everywhere, and it is not just an aesthetic truth that can be seen from the rubble of dilapidated and rickety houses, but it is first of all a moral truth. The figures of the crisis present themselves in a comic dialogue from the beginning, two brothers, a colonel and a university professor: army and university, the places of discipline, out of date, obsolete. Moral and political corruption advances in front of them, the anxiety of revenge, nostalgia, revanchism are the feelings that nourish the complexity of a frontier horizon and structural changes. A corrupt police force that governs and controls the social field in its own way always seems on the verge of becoming confused with a criminal organization, laying down what remains of the vestiges of the Empire that no one believes in anymore. The dogmas of materialism and socialism collapse together. Gangs of penniless, misfit and uprooted young people dedicate themselves to the new fashions that came from the West: rock, electronics, and above all alcohol. A horizon in which a right arises based on the oppression of the weakest, as I happened to write about Carrere's Limonov who described precisely this crack in the history of Russia. But where "the old world dies, and the new one is slow to appear in the chiaroscuro, monsters are generated". Zhurov, a shady and impotent law enforcement bureaucrat, kidnaps the beautiful Angelica, after raping her in a chilling manner, diverts the investigations for her recovery, having her arrested and Read all

Roberto Flauto

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While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.