The Leg [Noga], 1991

The Leg | Noga

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Slogan		"If you can not win your own, you have to kill him"
Director		Nikita Tyagunov
Screenwriter		Nadezhda Kozhushanaya Uil'yam Folkner
Producer		Aleksandr Mihajlov
Operator		Sergej Lubchenko
Composer		Oleg Karavajchuk
Artist		Nikolaj Saharov Vladimir Erofeev
Editor		V. Ostrinskaya
Genre		Insurgent [action film] Drama [play] War film [military]
Duration		87 min. / 01:27
Actors		Ivan Ohlobystin Petr Mamonov Ivan Zahava Natal'ya Petrova Farhad Mahmudov Ludmila Larionova Sherali Abdulkajsov Oksana Mysina M. Ajnetdinova D. Andrianov
Rating		7.41 / 10 [votes: 782]
IMDB Rating		7.10 / 10 [votes: 85]

The film's protagonist Valera - gay guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning ...

Review

In 1925, the famous American writer William Faulkner wrote the short story "The Leg." In this work, it was a young student at Oxford Devi, who was to take part in the First World War and lost a leg in battle. Surreal story describes the struggle with all the evil Davy, which arose in him during the war and took on a ghostly form.

In 1991, a young film director Nikita Tyagunov decides to withdraw his debut as a screen version of this story. Write the script, he asked a familiar playwright Kozhushanova Nadezhda, who decided that the plot of the story is easy to transfer to modern realities. Since Devi was Valery Martynov, and turned into the First World War in Afghanistan.

The main role Tyagunov chosen casually got to watch an obscure young student VGIK Ivan Ohlobystin. Thus, the "foot" - a film shot almost one debutant (director, cinematographer, lead actor, director picture). So notable for its success not only in the framework of the Russian kinoprostranstva, but also in numerous international festivals.

 See the "foot" I decided solely because Ohlobystin Ivan, whom I have always loved for its originality and some special magic that exude his kinopersonazhi from Parfen Rogozhin to the doctor Bykov, from an unnamed scout special person to advertiser Malyuta.

The film "leg" posmotrenny 20 years after its release, makes a very strange impression. At first he did not really like it. He shot in his favorite style Russian directors of the time: the strange music, intricate dialogue, surreal scenes. It is clear only that nothing is clear. Then I read the story of Faulkner and article about the film on Wikipedia, which explains a lot. 4 days after viewing, I realized that I can not let go of some of the scenes from the film, and especially the 10-minute dialogue Ohlobystin and Peter Mamonov. There is in this scene, something that goes deep into the soul and does not rest.

In short, this is a film about the senselessness of war and ruthlessness, about how the man who has passed through this hell, that he would never be able to live in the old way, and that the foot - this is not very strong that he to lose. Okhlobystin just perfect. Still, it's an amazing actor - a thin, lively, charming.

Advised to see "step" I do not presume. Russian films of the early 90's - this is a very material to the amateur. But if you like the aesthetics and style of shooting such films as "Assa", "Black Rose - Emblem of Sorrow", "referee", be sure to take a look and "foot." It is no wonder that it unconditionally accepted and loved, a veteran Afghan war.

Overnight. Friday [Nochleg. Pyatnica], 1991

Overnight. Friday | Nochleg. Pyatnica

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Director		Nikolaj Lebedev
Operator		Aleksej Sikorskij
Genre		Short film Horror
Duration		30 min.
Actors		Ivan Agapov Irina Shmeleva Nina Drobysheva Vitalij Yakovlev
Rating		7.55 / 10 [votes: 11]

A young woman falls into the other world, where he meets with his past - dead mother and her fiance committed suicide...

Review

Family, consisting of his wife, a man and his daughter, as I understood, from his first marriage, is riding through the woods, and the woods near the railroad they stall the engine. Husband goes in search of someone to help get at least to the nearest settlement. Nearing evening. Soon the girl to go to sleep, and the main character decides not to wait for her husband, and to go with a girl in search of lodging.


So they came to the abandoned orphanage. I must say, it looks very scary: the most memorable dilapidated statue of a pioneer. Women and girls are afraid of a black dog, they run up in and find out that the only inhabitants of the former asylum - dead mother and fiance of the heroine, and the weird dumb, played only known to me in this film the actor - Ivan Agapov ("All mixed up in the house" , "Truckers").

Director of the film - the debutant at the time, years later shot a great psychological thriller "Snake Spring" and "Fan" - Nikolai Lebedev. On them, as on "overnight ...", it is clear that Lebedev is able to shoot horror. I must say, not without blunders - already called strange act of the protagonist in the beginning of the movie, and then it says the dead fiance of her husband: "He hates me girl" - although they have no disagreement with the girl for all half-hour film, the girl even calls woman mum.

But overall, I liked the movie. Very real looking scary moments that really scare me. Perfectly capture the ambiance of the dilapidated building, both inside and outside, including the above pioneer.