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"Of Freaks And Men"
1998
Directed by Alexei Balabanov

From the director of Brother comes this subversive black comedy that suggests the coarseness of contemporary culture that is merely the flowering of seeds planted in the Victorian age. A pornographer and his assistant maneuver their way into two well-to-do families in St. Petersburg. Dark, hidden passions are revealed as manipulation and corruption take hold. "Balabanov is clearly a genuine troublemaker...Even Lynch and Greenaway have rarely left an audience with such a bitterly ironic punchline" (Jonathan Romney, Sight and Sound). Russian with English subtitles.  89 minutes.