The Nose or The Conspiracy of Mavericks

Local title
Nina või teistsuguste vandenõu
Title in Russian
Нос, или Заговор "не таких"
Original title
Nos ili zagovor netakikh
Director
Andrey Khrzhanovsky
Country
Russian Federation
Year
2020
Programme
Main programme of Kinoff

On the plane, classics of Soviet cinema unspool on the monitors, while two gentlemen discuss Gogol's proto-surrealist 1836 novella The Nose and what it means to be civilized today.

Set to the score of Shostakovich's eponymous 1920s opera, animation legend Khrzhanovsky brings us on his stridently post-modernist path of narrative anti-drive, all digression with nary a plot, all cheek and panache. Ideas, anecdotes and even some insights into the human heart carefully disguised as jokes, create a gem from the future and the past, a groundbreaking requiem for the Russian avant-garde.

Director
Andrey Khrzhanovsky
Screenwriter
Yury Arabov, Andrey Khrzhanovsky
Producer
Andrey Khrzhanovsky
DoP
Andrey Khrzhanovsky
Editor
Taissia Krugovykh
Production
School - Studio “SHAR”
Runtime
Language
Russian
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