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Lebedyne ozero. Zona

Swan Lake. The Zone
Film still from SWAN LAKE. THE ZONE: A person leans against a hammer and sickle monument.

Thu 13.07.
20:00

  • Director

    Yuriy Ilyenko

  • USSR / 1989
    96 min. / DCP / Original version with English subtitles

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender
  • Barbara Wurm in conversation with Dietrich Sagert

Of the many "zone" films of (post-)Soviet cinema, this symbolic and realistic, yet postmodern, perestroika film is one of the most disquieting. Wish fulfilment notwithstanding, late Soviet existence takes place between prison brutality and the interior of a giant monument of the hammer and sickle where a man seeks refuge. Totalitarianism, this film realizes, is in the elitist art of Swan Lake itself. (bw)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media