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Cruel Illness of Men (1989)
Directed by Igor Aleynikov, Gleb Aleynikov
Drama · 10m
Under a score of abbreviated drones and freeform woodwinds, the Aleinikov brothers cut together a series of images, found and made, that look unfailingly bleak, industrial or both bleak and industrial: disused factories, clunky utilitarian machinery, strings of unsettlingly young violinists, old-timey group portraits with everyone's eyes scratched out. Interspersed are less overtly sinister but somehow eerier snatches of action, like a circling brood of crude stop-motion mice or a bunch of little wooden people chopping wood and sawing logs, all differently affected by the vagaries time and the physical world foist onto film stock.
Crew
- Director
- Igor Aleynikov, Gleb Aleynikov
Details
- Original title
- Жестокая болезнь мужчин
- Release date
- 1989-12-28
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union