* Who was that?
* Ivan Taiga.
* Who? Taiga?
* Yeah. The one. Elusive.
* And what? Can't anyone catch him?
* Who the hell needs him?
"The Last Soviet Film" - says the slogan. Briefly a few facts:
* Initially it was assumed that the entire "Kino" group would star in the film. Whether the film would have been better in the end is anyone's guess. It was replaced by the group "Tequilajazzz", which had just been formed at that time.
* Filming took place in autumn and winter in Kyrgyzstan and in spring in Almaty.
* The work quite clearly stands on the same field as "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" (1981), while taking the theme of the eastern as a basis, i.e. The opposite of western, Soviet cars and things. If you wish, you can find other less / more obvious borrowings, such as the episode with potatoes from "Chapaev" (1934), and also that the number of heroes, seven, refers to the corresponding Japanese work.
* Project exists only in a draft version.
There is a rather unusual plot outline. Somewhere in the steppe lives a circus dynasty of midgets. They are attacked by a crazy gang and are unable to resist them on their own. In order to somehow cope with the situation, they go to the nearest semblance of a settlement, a rather peculiar place, where for a round sum of local currency they plan to hire a free mercenary for protection. In the course of the action, he will be accompanied by: a couple of taciturn elements, one of whom wears dark glasses, a drunkard, a fatal blonde in a convertible and a stuntman.
Sounds crazy? Not without it. The further narrative develops, on the one hand, according to a predictable scenario of skirmishes with a local gang, which is diluted with various point stories, on the other hand, there is room for several original moves, as well as what this film definitely cannot be taken away from the general atmosphere, which is quite difficult to convey in words.
The final verdict can be the exact opposite. From recognizing this work as pretentious trash to drawing analogies with various classics of the post-apocalyptic genre.
