Cinematheque: Aleksei Guerman

“One of the few indisputable masterpieces of world cinema of the past 40 years” (Film Comment), this odyssey into the dark heart of Soviet Russia is mad, bewildering, and unlike anything you’ve seen. The delirious scenario follows a Red Army general/brain surgeon during the mayhem of Stalin’s final days. (Russia, 1998, 35mm, 137 minutes, subtitled)