A political thriller that snorted its own budget and became a fever dream.
Konservy (2007) (Tins, Russian: Консервы) is a film about a journalist who possesses information on uranium sales and is set up by his enemies and sent to prison. Initially the film was planned as a political thriller, but along the way it gained features of action with elements of mysticism and surrealism.The film is full of vivid pictures of spy and terrorist games in Moscow, modern Gulag in the Far North, gold mines, escape with elite spetsnaz in the pursuit, underground community of permanently high punks, and other quite unusual settings.
Direction
Konchalovsky's complete genre abandonment mid-film is breathtakingly unhinged.
Production
Modern Gulag to gold mines to punk communes — production design on hallucinogens.
Practical Effects
Elite spetsnaz pursuit sequences hit harder than most Hollywood CGI nonsense.
Director
Egor Konchalovsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Egor Konchalovsky is nephew to Andrei Tarkovsky, which makes this film's chaotic energy either a brilliant subversion or family rebellion.
The 'modern Gulag' sequences deliberately echo Soviet-era prison camps, but filmed with glossy music-video aesthetics that infuriated Russian critics and confused everyone else.
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