Gorod Zero (Zero City, 1988)
Kafkaesque absurdity meets Soviet reality during the years of the extremely bureaucratic Perestroika in this deadpan comedy by Karen Shakhnazarov.
CategoryComedy
Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)
Tengiz Abuladze by presenting a grotesque realism with a touch of subcutaneous self-sarcasm managed to bury all the fears that had survived for so many years in the USSR.
Le Magnifique (The Magnificent, 1973)
The instant cult French espionage parody by Philippe de Broca with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset.
Yuri Esposito – Venice 70 Biennale College
This is the kind of comedy film that you should await from an emerging and innovative new director like Alessio Fava.