A Soviet gas station becomes purgatory for one desperate driver.
At the center of the story is the story of the relationship between the employees of the service station and a hapless customer who has lost hope of getting his car.
Acting
Ensemble cast weaponizes passive-aggression into art.
Direction
Pavlovskyi traps you in claustrophobic stasis.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes mundane cruelty.
Director
Leonid Pavlovskyi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during perestroika, the film captures the spiritual exhaustion of a collapsing system where institutions still functioned but humanity had checked out.
Pavlovskyi allegedly based the script on a real incident at a Moscow service station, which explains the documentary-like discomfort of the performances.
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