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One of the best Balabanov movies. It was shot in Kronstadt, located on Kotlin island near Saint Petersburg. The atmosphere of the 1990-ies in Russian is perfectly depicted together with the sad fate of the minor nation of Yakuts in the old Russian empire. The main mail characters are subject to the post-traumatic syndrome of the cruel Soviet-Afghanistan war in 1980-ies. But the philosophical meaning of the movie is much deeper than these recent circumstances and the music is perfectly suited for that.

A good insight on the hopeless state of Russian modern society. Integrity and good can be found only in interpersonal relations, not in social institutions which are totally corrupted. The movie is a little bit slow, but still catching.