

Soviet absurdism at 68 minutes — communism's answer to sketch comedy, and it's gloriously unhinged.
Direction
Two directors, four shorts, zero coherence — somehow it works.
Acting
Yasulovich's deadpan bicycle owner is unintentionally iconic.
Director
Mark Genin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Brezhnev's stagnation, these shorts sneaked social criticism past censors through pure absurdism — the bureaucratic nightmares were documentary, not fiction.
Natalya Vavilova, the train stranger, became a Soviet cinema icon — her entire performance here is basically eye contact and mystery, and it launched her career.
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