Zerograd
1988 · Movie · 97 min · ★ 6.7 · 78% critics
On a routine business trip, an ordinary visitor arrives in a provincial city that looks familiar at first, but quickly turns unsettling. As strange encounters and dead-end rules pile up, everyday life starts to feel like a darkly funny nightmare about bureaucracy, social decay, and hidden absurdity.
Also known as Zero City · City Zero · Zero Town
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Details
- Original title
- Город Зеро
- Years
- 1988
- Release date
- 1988-10-01
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (66 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy surreal, blackly funny stories that feel like a stress dream and turn ordinary routines into something unsettling; Not for you if you want a clear, tidy plot or comforting tone.
Pros: dark absurd humor; dreamlike atmosphere; sharp social satire | Cons: loose story structure; slow at times; deliberately frustrating mood
Themes
- phantasmagoria
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1990 · nominated
Cast & crew
Leonid Filatov
as Алексей Михайлович Варакин
Oleg Basilashvili
as Василий Николаевич Чугунов, председатель писательской организации
Vladimir Menshov
as Николай Иванович Смородинов, прокурор города
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
as Пал Палыч, директор завода
Aleksei Zharkov
as следователь
Pyotr Shcherbakov
as Степан Филиппович Иванов, председатель горисполкома
Evgeniy Evstigneev
as директор музея
Yuriy Sherstnyov
as Курдюмов, официант ресторана
Elena Arzhanik
as Нина, секретарша Пал Палыча
Tatyana Khvostikova
as Анна
Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov