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Made in USSR(1991)
Status: Released
Date: 1991-08-15
56%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 22m
Overview:
An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of the mysterious theft of a VCR turns into a grotesque and gloomy farce when interim director Viktor Andreyevich, with a callous dictatorial hand, terrorises students and teachers. And now the young "patriots" punish peers-"dissidents", joining the ranks of the "pioneer-jugend." And an ordinary school laboratory turns into a place for torture...
Languages: Russian.
Countries:
Soviet Union
ProductionCompanies: 
Fora Film
Movie: Made in USSR
Top 10 Billed Cast
Արմեն Բորիսի Ջիգարխանյան
Viktor Andreyevich
Оксана Арбузова
Katya
Кирилл Белевич
Alexei
Aleksandra Fomichyova
Smetleva
Алла Клюка
Irina Sysoyeva
Вера Панасенкова
High School Student
Леонид Куравлёв
Ivan Moiseyevich
Эдуард Марцевич
Boris Fyodorovich
Vyacheslav Ilyin
Chernov
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Overview
An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of the mysterious theft of a VCR turns into a grotesque and gloomy farce when interim director Viktor Andreyevich, with a callous dictatorial hand, terrorises students and teachers. And now the young "patriots" punish peers-"dissidents", joining the ranks of the "pioneer-jugend." And an ordinary school laboratory turns into a place for torture...
Release Date
1991-08-15
Average
5.6
Rating:
2.8 startsTagline
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Languages:
Pусский
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