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Up Next in Soviet Satire: comedies of communism from silent cinema to the eighties

  • We Are Our Mountains

    Directed by Henrik Malyan • 1969 • USSR/Armenia

    When a petty dispute over a lost sheep gets out of hand, a group of shepherds find their mountain idyll interrupted by the long arm of the law in Henrik Malyan’s cult Soviet satire, adapted from his own work by beloved Armenian author Hrant Matevos...

  • Madness

    Directed by Kaljo Kiisk • 1969 • USSR/Estonia

    Hailed as Estonia’s first truly modern feature film, Kaljo Kiisk’s mind-bending satire of authoritarianism and self-delusion pushed the boundaries of Soviet propriety and was banned from theatres for nearly twenty years. In an unnamed, occupied count...

  • Blue Mountains

    Directed by Eldar Shengelaia • 1983 • USSR/Georgia

    This deft satire of Soviet bureaucracy from one of Georgian cinema’s great poets follows Soso, an aspiring novelist looking to publish his latest manuscript. It soon becomes apparent that the publishing house is staffed by a host of oblivious em...