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
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.
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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