Dikari

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Dikari (Savages)
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Directed by	Viktor Shamirov
Starring	Gosha Kutsenko Vladislav Galkin Marat Basharov Georgy Dronov Anatoly Zhuravlev Igor Vernik Aleksey Gorbunov Evklid Kyurdzidis Elena Polyanskaya.
Release date(s)	2006
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
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Savages (2006) (Russian: Дикари, Dikari) is another Russian "people's comedy" in the line with the infamous Peculiarities of National Hunting.

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The word "Dikari", which literally means "Savages", was used in the Soviet Union to describe tourists that travel to the South under their own steam and living in tents. The South in question includes the Crimea and resort towns like Sochi, which the Russian cultural consciousness associates with fun and romance. In laymen’s terms, people travel to the South to get a tan, drink and sex. The characters of this film are no exception.

The open sequence would have Tinto Brass licking his lips, as the camera follows a pair of youths along a secluded beach strewn with lovemaking couples and naked girls. The South depicted here is heavily clouded by nostalgia: it is the paradise of a middle-aged man remembering his youth, which was peopled by quirky friends and bare-breasted girls, and free of any old people whatsoever.

Gosha Kutsenko leads a cast of mostly young but already very popular actors, most of whom are clad in cargo shorts or camouflage gear. Kutsenko plays Aye-Aye, who comes to the Crimea every summer to meet old friends in the hope that it will return his lust for life. Lots of things happen on the beach, from wild love to tender friendship. In no way the movie is "dirty" - it is funny, romantic, and nostalgic. The beach way.