Khrustalyov, Mashinu!

Director: Alexei German Alexei German

Overview

Alexei German directed this French-Russian co-production with atmospheric black-and-white cinematography on snow-covered streets depicting Moscow life of the early '50s. After work, boiler repairman (Alexander Bashirov) walks through the night and into an encounter with Stalin's police. Glinsky (Y. Tsurilo), aka The General, heads a household of his wife (N. Ruslanova), son, twins, grandmother, and servants. Amid anarchic actions at a madcap hospital, the staff turns toady as the General goes about his usual routines. When a KGB plot leads to the General's arrest, he flees only to be caught at the train station. Forced from their apartment, his wife and son move into a seedy rooming house where everyone has their own individual toilet seats. En route to a gulag, the General is gang-raped. Since he's a doctor, he winds up being taken to the country house of the dying Stalin. After a return to his family and the ruins of his home in Moscow, he eventually links up with the boiler repairman. Shown in competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/30/2019
UPC:	0760137233886
Original Release:	1998
Source:	Arrow Video
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Yuri Tsurilo	Yuri Glinsky
Nina Ruslanova	Wife
Misha Dementyev	Son
Alexander Bashirov	Idiot
Juri Jarvet	Swedish Reporter

Technical Credits

Alexei German

Svetlana Karmalita

Alexei German	Director,Screenwriter
Nikolay Astakhov	Sound/Sound Designer
E. Chapkaits	Costumes/Costume Designer
M. Gerasimov	Production Designer
Alexander Golutva	Producer
Irina Gorokhovskaya	Editor
Vladimir Ilyin	Cinematographer
Svetlana Karmalita	Screenwriter
Georgi Kropachyov	Production Designer
B. Lecuyer	Production Manager
Armen Medvedev	Producer
Andrei Petrov	Score Composer
Guy Seligman	Producer
Vladimir Svetozarov	Production Designer