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ABSURDISTAN

 

Director -Veit Helmer
Run Time - 88 minutes
Language -Russian w/English subtitles
Format - DVD
Year - 2007
Genre - Foreign Drama
Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Women’s Studies

 

Institutional DVD Price: $295

 

 

 
 
 

Welcome to Absurdistan, a small village in the high desert mountains, just on the outskirts of reality, where magical visions and bizarre events fuse together, but the sexes are divided. The village is facing a water shortage, but the men are too lazy to fix a rickety pipeline and the women are getting fed up with their good-for-nothing husbands. Led by young Aya (Kristyna Malerova), the women make a simple vow: “No water, no sex.” The men’s only hope is Temelko (Maximilian Mauff), whose long-promised wedding with Aya is put on hold until he finds a solution to the water problem. From the wild imagination of the award-winning director of Tuvalu comes this perfectly pitched lyrical comedy that is romantic, surreal and boundlessly poetic.

 

A delightful fable … a treat for the eyes and funny bone!” - Dennis Harvey, Variety

Blends fantastical imagery with folktale simplicity… sparkling visual finesse.” - Eric Kohn, Indiewire

 

 

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