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Vacancy

1989 · 50 min

A dry, absurd satire that turns bureaucratic stagnation into a deadpan comic crawl through stations and carriages.

Directed by
Dzhikhangir Shakhmuradov
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Lyudmila Dukhovnaya, Anatoliy Egorov, Yuriy Izrailyan
Overview
The shortcomings of the era of stagnation are criticized in a grotesque manner - it takes place at a train station and on a train.

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Directed by
Dzhikhangir Shakhmuradov
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Lyudmila Dukhovnaya, Anatoliy Egorov, Yuriy Izrailyan
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • work
  • class
  • corruption
  • identity
Places
  • workplace
  • road trip
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour7
Realism6
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Dzhikhangir Shakhmuradov
Written by
Vladislav Khanagov
Starring
Lyudmila Dukhovnaya, Anatoliy Egorov, Yuriy Izrailyan, Rafik Aliyev, Farman Abdullayev, Mubariz Alikhanogly, Pavel Vinnik, Manefa Sobolevskaya
Cinematography
Amin Novruzov
Runtime
50 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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