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The End of the World (1963)
Directed by Boris Buneev
Comedy · 1h 25m
A satirical comedy with elements of metaphysical horror about religion in rural 1960s Soviet Russia. Notable for using first-person pseudo-documentary "found footage" technique framing the movie as the creation of the protagonist, who is returns to his home village from the city to discover that a local drunk has formed a doomsday cult.
Cast
Stanislav Sokolov
Sasha Likardokin
Y
Yevgeniya Kolmykova
Polya
Tatyana Pelttser
Matryona
Vitali Politseymako
Filin
Stanislav Lyubshin
father Michail
Daya Smirnova
mother Klavdiya
Varvara Popova
Agafya
Vladimir Ratomsky
old man Pafnutiy
Y
Yevgeni Kryuchkov
Fedya
Y
Yuri Kharchenko
Grisha Zubarik
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Egor Ivanovich
Viktor Sergachyov
local militia man
Crew
- Director
- Boris Buneev
- Writer
- Vasiliy Solovyov
- Director of Photography
- Aleksandr Khvostov, Lev Rogozin
- Original Music Composer
- Yevgeniy Ptichkin
- Editor
- Olga Katusheva
Details
- Original title
- Конец света
- Release date
- 1963-06-24
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Gorky Film Studios