Sto dnei do prikaza
(100 Tage, Genosse Soldat)

PFFB classics, RU 1990, 67 min., russ. OV + engl. UT

By: Hussein Erkenov

With: Oleg Vasilkov, Aleksandr Tschislov, Vladimir Samanski, Armen Dshigarchanjan

A film like a fever dream, with dark sexuality streaming through. In a barrack, somewhere in the former Soviet Union, young recruits are prepared for their deployment in a war. Their training lasts 100 days, and many of them will not survive the distant yet omnipresent war. The atmosphere is charged with desperate, oppressed desire, which repeatedly unleashes itself in homoerotic power games. This unique, visually stunning film, shot in the declining Soviet Union, accompanies five young soldiers in their futile everyday struggle for survival in a military system whose merciless violence threatens to destroy their humanity.