A man tries to un-gay himself. Russia says 'nice try, comrade.'
One day a young man named Gleb decides one day to abandon ... his gay orientation. With the help of ex-boyfriend Vladik, he tries to establish his new “male” life, but everywhere he stumbles on his own kind, or on primordially Russian homophobia, which ultimately leads him to a tragic and paradoxical ending in the form of death from above.
Direction
Fyodorov's grotesque deadpan that refuses catharsis.
Writing
Dialogue so bleak it circles back to dark comedy.
Director
Pyotr Fyodorov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Putin's crackdown on LGBTQ+ 'propaganda,' the film's very existence was political resistance disguised as grotesque fable.
Title is Latin medical slang for anal exam — Fyodorov's middle finger to censorship, since censors didn't translate it.
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