Homo Sovieticus (2020)

Directed by

Ivo Briedis

Genre

documentary film

Country

Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 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

Two journalists born in the USSR travel across former Soviet states to investigate whether a totalitarian mindset still survives in people today. They look for traces of obedience and strongman rhetoric nearly 30 years after the Soviet Union collapsed.

thought-provokingintrospectivemeasuredunsettlingreflectiveinquisitiveneutral-tonedexploratory

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