Cargo 200 (2007) (English subtitles).

Cargo 200 (2007) (English subtitles).

Although it may be too soon to declare Cargo 200 the best Russian film of 2007, it is hard to imagine much competition for the title of most controversial. Borrowing freely from various cinematic genres (for example, anti-war, family drama, psychological thriller) and literary classics (especially Dostoevskii's novels), Balabanov has constructed a rigorous and unsparing film about the death of the Soviet Union that is guaranteed to shock even the most jaded viewers. According to Balabanov, Soviet society circa 1984 was the poisonous wreck of an industrial civilization tottering on the verge of collapse from the sum of its political, social, and individual vices: a hopeless foreign war of choice bleeding the country dry, a terrorized and infantilized populace, rampant alcohol abuse among young and old, complete police lawlessness, a geriatric and out of touch government, a dismal and hypocritical popular culture, an arrogant and cynical intelligentsia, a nihilistic younger generation, and the soul-crushing hopelessness of everyday life for the masses. When the best representatives of the younger generation were sacrificed to vain and doomed imperial ambitions in Afghanistan, the future was put in the hands of amoral black-marketers, the absolutely predictable products of a soulless, cynical, and materialistic culture, who would become the business elite of post-Soviet Russia.

Title comes from code phrase for dead soldiers shipped home from Afghanistan.

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Crew:
Director: Aleksei Balabanov
Writer: Aleksei Balabanov

Cast:
Agniya Kuznetsova as Angelika
Aleksei Poluyan as Captain Zhurov
Leonid Gromov as Artem, Professor of Scientific Atheism
Aleksei Serebryakov as Aleksey
Leonid Bichevin as Valera
Natalya Akimova as Antonina, Aleksey's Wife
Yuri Stepanov as Mikhail, Colonel
Mikhail Skryabin as Sunka

© STV Film Company, 2007.
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Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_200
Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847880/
Reviewed at Venice Film Festival:
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934529.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
Review in New York Times:
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/420043/Cargo-200/overview
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Subtitles from:
http://www.baidak.com/blog/gruz-200-subtitles

Category:

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[zipacna1980]

The most disgusting trash I've seen.

[PyccoTypucmo]

@zipacna1980

Каждому своё.

[jwsyt2]

I believe it is necessary to stop the making of such movies.

[PyccoTypucmo]

@jwsyt2

Why?

[jwsyt2]

@PyccoTypucmo

Why? Because the movie is profoundly offensive, demoralising and spiritually hurtful to any normal person. The scenes of murder, violence, rape...... perhaps you have not seen the movie...I regret having watched it.

Otherwise your other movie listings are a significant cultural contribution and I thank you for them! best wishes....

[PyccoTypucmo]

@jwsyt2

Profoundly offensive? For whom? Just don't say that for all people, please. ;) Of course, this film is hard to watch but it based on real events. If you take a look on the modern criminal chronicle in TV news, this film will looks like a childish joke. By the way, my wife doesn't like this film too and I have seen it two times - when I've bought DVD and when I found the subtitles. ;)

Anyway, thanks for your comment, opinion and appreciation of other films. Best wishes from Moscow. :)

[Tamerlano2]

This movie is wonderful.

"here's your fiance"

[LunaEllee]

@LunaEllee This movie is essential and it's simply about the autorithy of humans with no moral conflict. And in this, in goodness and badness, there is more authenticity and more humanity of Western hypocrites countries who hide their badness and cruelty behind a false morality, and I live in one of these countries. Anyway, thank you so much for sharing this, best wishes from Italy

[LunaEllee]

This movie is a masterpiece, and it is for all those who can see beyond the violence. For me it is very difficult to understand the reality of the Soviet Union because I'm Italian, born in the 90s, and for this reason I would never judge, how could I?

[shadowdima]

@Darkonomist No need to be so violent. No matter what she did she didn't deserve this kind of punishment. By saying this you are putting yourself on the same plane with the characters of this movie. Which shows how down to earth and realistic this film is, which is freaking scary. This IS the reality.

[shadowdima]

A powerful and absolutely blood chilling film. I don't think I wanna watch it again, but it was great to watch it the first time. Puts everything in perspective. Very interesting and complicated characters. An outstanding execution of the psychopathic policeman role! That episode in the beginning when he looks into the car window still makes me shiver. I feel violated, dirty and nasty, but that was the effect Balabanov wanted to achieve. All I can say wow! And I am never gonna watch it again.

[SomethingEgg]

Brutal

[chlyb42]

@pilotsaula321 Голубые молнии — Дембельская

[chlyb42]

@Darba07 ДК — Новый поворот It's a remake of the Машина Времени song "Поворот"

[chlyb42]

@Darkonomist Really? That's all you took from this film?

[halyna62]

gadost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

[cjh991]

sad where do ppl get this kind of movies