Cloud-Paradise

One of the slowest starts in movie history sets the character of what is to follow. Conversations about nothing, decent acting, a few amusing moments. Somehow you feel a certain affinity with the main character, and the film is memorable despite the fact that absolutely nothing happens in it. A very strange soviet movie, the main virtue of which is originality. Does not have any laugh out loud moments. It is neither a comedy nor a drama.

Oblako-raj stops where an average road movie starts - at the departure of the main hero. Kolya is so bored by his life in the suburbs of a large city that he announces his departure to Siberia. Actually he does not want to leave and is really afraid to make such a big step in his life. But after everybody in his direct environment welcomes his decision and sees him as a local hero, Kolya has no choice - he has to go…

Oblako-raj is a beautiful film about ordinary people, meant as a comedy and showing how many beautiful moments we experience in our everyday lives. And that it's much easier to stay than to leave for a new life. I loved the melancholic and very poetic ending and the title song.

"Cloud-Paradise" is the tragicomedy of Nikolay Dostal. The very end of the Soviet era, a provincial town, longing and boredom, life passed by the locals. The film is about how one stupid random joke turns the life of the town for one day, and the life of the protagonist - forever. The whole ensemble is magnificent, but Irina Rozanova and Vladimir Tolokonnikov are especially good.