Dom pod zvyozdnym nebom

It is the last film of the Solovyov trilogy and possibly the last "underground" soviet film. A great scientist returned from US, where he was given a PC (a very rare and expensive thing for Russia of that time) and some other awards for his outstanding research. The KGB and "Bratva" did the best to meet him at his motherland and get a piece of his prize. Besides, it is the film of the last years of "perestroika" which was,in itself, the mass hallucination. So that is the way Solovyov made his film. But it is the last sad joke about the tortured motherland. The country that we have lost.

At first, this film seems to try to develop in its own way the message given in "Assa" (1987) and "Chyornaya roza - emblema pechali, krasnaya roza - emblema lyubvi" (1989) about the death of the former empire and the fate of its individual, as previously, mostly eccentric inhabitants. In any case, individual episodes try to hint at this. At the same time, the level of farce, raised to a fairly high bar in the second film, here reaches an even higher level, interspersed with horror, inserts with the all-powerful KGB, dark magic, and closer to the epilogue, slides into pure, rather delirious and meaningless phantasmagoria.

Could try to dwell on some aspects in a little more detail, but alas, I don't see the point in this - the end of the trilogy didn't work out and this picture, if it is of interest to anyone, will be mainly to avid fans of domestic art-house, trash with a pinch of dark surrealism, as well as grindhouse of various kinds.