Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev (2024)

Original title

Յաշան ու Լեոնիդ Բրեժնևը

Directed by

Edgar Baghdasaryan

Genre

tragicomedy

Country

Armenia, Russia

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired Armenian man struggles to accept the end of the Soviet Union. He copes by imagining conversations with Leonid Brezhnev and other communist leaders.

absurdistmelancholiccontemplativequirkynostalgicdarkly comicslow-burn

What happens

Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev (Armenian: Յաշան և Լեոնիդ Բրեժնևը) is a 2024 absurdist tragicomedy film written and directed by Edgar Baghdasaryan. Starring Mais Sarkisyan as a retired Armenian reluctant to accept the dissolution of the Soviet Union imagines conversations with former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and other communist leaders. It was selected as the Armenian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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