In the not-so-distant future the computer game industry reaches its fullest flower. Virtual reality is indistinguishable from real life. The government launches Department C to control the game space. Censors secretly delve into games. Their mission is to take sex and violence beyond the forbidden level. A game that would let them do that must be banned. One of the Censors is a good guy who hates his bloody job. The other one is a creep. But even the Censors lose their ability to tell the game from the real world.
Production
Scrappy VR world-building that punches above its budget weight.
Writing
Surprisingly sharp satire of game rating systems and bureaucratic evil.
Director
Konstantin Shelepov
Stepan Beketov
Censor
Pavel Mikhailov
Alex
Galina Sumina
Alena
Sergey Mardar
Chief
Karina Razumovskaya
psychologist
Vladimir Chernyshov
club director
Evgeny Dobryakov
commander
Andrey Nekrasov
negotiator
Mikhail Sidash
lawyer
Aleksandra Serebryakova
office employee
Olesya Boyko
IT company employee
Svetlana Smirnova-Katsagadzhieva
technician
Vitaly Krivonos
commissioner
Yuriy Utkin
German officer
Ilya Del
friend
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Russia's tightening internet censorship laws, the film's bureaucratic horror hits different knowing real 'Roskomnadzor' agents were doing similar work.
Director Shelepov shot the VR sequences using modified consumer headsets after the budget fell through—those 'glitch' effects are partly accidental hardware failures.
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