The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)

Original title

Трактир на Пятницкой

Directed by

Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Genre

crime film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

In 1920s Moscow, a criminal investigation centers on a tavern where shady characters gather. A detective works to solve a crime connected to the tavern's murky underworld.

suspensefulgrittyatmosphericnoirishtenseintriguingold-fashioned

What happens

The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (Russian: Трактир на Пятницкой, romanized: Traktir na Pyatnitskoy) is a 1978 Soviet crime film. The picture is a screen adaptation of the eponymous novel by Nikolai Leonov. The film became was one of the leading pictures at the 1978 USSR box-office (5th place), it was seen by 54.1 million viewers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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