It (1989)

Original title

Оно

Directed by

Sergey Ovcharov

Genre

comedy drama, satirical film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 10m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Soviet film is a satirical adaptation of a 19th century novel. It shows the absurd and dystopian history of a fictional town to mock the Soviet Union.

satiricalsurrealdarkly comicdystopianhistoricalbleakgrotesqueabsurd

What happens

It (Russian: Оно, romanized: Ono) is a 1989 Soviet historical comedy-drama film directed by Sergei Ovcharov and based on the satirical novel The History of a Town by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. While Saltykov-Shchedrin's novel was written in the 19th century, It was filmed as a satire on the Soviet Union, which is portrayed in the film in a dystopian and surreal way. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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