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The Garage (1980)

The Garage poster
Original title
Гараж
Directed by
Eldar Ryazanov
Genre
satire, tragicomedy, comedy drama
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
12+
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 98 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Members of a garage cooperative in the Soviet Union hold a meeting that becomes a heated clash over corruption and favoritism. The locked-room situation forces them to confront moral dilemmas and power struggles.

satiricaltenseabsurdistmelancholicdarkly comicethicalclaustrophobicthought-provoking

What happens

The Garage (Russian: Гараж) is a Soviet 1980 comedy-drama film directed by Eldar Ryazanov, based on a screenplay by Emil Braginsky. In the 1970s Soviet Union, a group of garage cooperative members confront corruption, favoritism, and moral dilemmas in a tense, locked-room meeting that spirals into an unexpected battle of ethics and power. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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