22.10.2025 in 20:50. In Between: St. Petersburg’s Film Culture of the 1990s.The Iron Heel of Oligarchy+Q&A Aleksandr Bashirov, Dom Kino, Blue hall

Time and place

Wednesday, 22 October 2025 at 20:50
Dom Kino Cinema Center – Blue Hall: Karavannaya Street, 12
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Description

The Iron Heel of Oligarchy
1997, Russian  75 min.,  o.v.-Russian,  feature,  full-length
Director: Aleksandr Bashirov

The Iron Heel of Oligarchy

Genres: Feature, Full-length

Director: Aleksandr Bashirov

Operator: Vladimir Brylyakov, Sergei Lando

Screenwriter: Aleksandr Bashirov

Cast: Aleksandr Bashirov, Sergei Dyachkov, Evgeniy Fedorov

Producer: Aleksandr Bashirov, Rodion Ismailov, Sergei Vladimirov

Year: 1997

Country: Russia

Duration: 1 h. 15 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

Nikolai Petrovich, once a teacher of Russian language and literature, now a lumpenproletarian, sets out for St. Petersburg—the “cradle of the revolution”—to pursue his idée fixe: organizing a proletarian uprising against the oligarchy.
* Winner of the Tiger Award at the IFFR, the Filmkritik magazine award at the Venice IFF, the FIPRESCI Prize at the Kinotavr Film Festival, two prizes at the Window to Europe festival, and more.

About the director:

Aleksandr Bashirov



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