* Who was that?
* Ivan Taiga.
* Who? Taiga?
* Yeah. The one. Elusive.
* And what? Can't anyone catch him?
* Who the hell needs him?
"The Last Soviet Film" - says the slogan. Briefly a few facts:
* Initially it was assumed that the entire "Kino" group would star in the film. Whether the film would have been better in the end is anyone's guess. It was replaced by the group "Tequilajazzz", which had just been formed at that time.
* Filming took place in autumn and winter in Kyrgyzstan and in spring in Almaty.
* The work quite clearly stands on the same field as "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" (1981), while taking the theme of the eastern as a basis, i.e. The opposite of western, Soviet cars and things. If you wish, you can find other less / more obvious borrowings, such as the episode with potatoes from "Chapaev" (1934), and also that the number of heroes, seven, refers to the corresponding Japanese work.
* Project exists only in a draft version.
The outline of the plot is like this. Somewhere in the steppe lives a circus dynasty of lilliputians. They are attacked by a crazy gang and are unable to resist them on their own. In order to somehow cope with the situation they go to the nearest semblance of a populated area, the only cultural establishment in which there is a bar and something like a hotel where they play German porn. In that area, for 100,000,000 of a certain currency, they plan to hire a free mercenary, who along the way will be accompanied by a non-talkative guy in dark glasses, a drunkard, a fatal blonde in a convertible, whose name is... Marilyn, a trickster in a mask, a guy with an eagle.
Sounds crazy? However, the further narrative does not require any special comments. Here is the case when it is difficult to convey the atmosphere in words, you need to watch it and the further verdict may be exactly the opposite. From recognizing this work as pretentious trash to drawing analogies with the same "Six-String Samurai" (1998), which I personally didn't like for anything other than the soundtrack at the time.
