Episode 607: Zerograd (1988)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

We’re discussing the 1988 film from Karen Shakhnazarov, Zero City. The film stars Leonid Filatov as Aleksei Varakin, he’s from a Moscow Mechanical Plant and comes to a small town to meet with a man about air conditioners. He soon finds himself in an absurdist nightmare where he’s served a cake that looks like his own head by a chef who is not his father and commits suicide.

Samm Deighan and Alistair Pitts join Mike to talk about the film while director Karen Shakhnazarov provides more context to the making of the movie.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:23.6	Turn it off. I'm one cupayupéyne, to Moscow.
0:41.7	Villettos, no.
0:43.7	No, no, what.
0:44.7	I'm, it's all, a plas-card-n...
0:47.0	No, no.
0:48.0	No.
0:49.0	And where, the head of you, the head?
0:50.7	The head nothern't.
0:52.4	No. And where did you first came? I was the first I called. The head not. The What is this? What is it?
1:11.6	We're
1:26.6	We're we're We're we're We're We have
1:28.3	We have
1:29.3	We have
1:30.3	We're
1:31.3	Oh, yeah,
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