Zerograd

Zerograd, Zero City
Directed by	Karen Shakhnazarov
Written by	Karen Shakhnazarov Aleksandr Borodyansky
Starring	Leonid Filatov Oleg Basilashvili Vladimir Menshov Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Cinematography	Nikolay Nemolyaev
Release date	1989 (1989)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Zerograd (Russian: Город Зеро, translit. Gorod Zero) is a 1989 Russian mystery film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov. Moscow engineer Alexey Varakin visits a small town on a business trip, where his adventures begin. He meets a naked secretary at a local factory, a prosecutor who wants to commit a crime and other strange characters. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[1]

Cast

• Leonid Filatov as Alexey Varakin
• Oleg Basilashvili as writer Vasily Chugunov
• Vladimir Menshov as prosecutor Nikolay Smorodinov
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as factory director Pavel Palych
• Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as keeper of local museum
• Aleksei Zharkov as police detective
• Pyotr Scherbakov as head of city party council
• Elena Arzhanik as secretary
• Tatiana Khvostikova as Anna
• Yury Sherstnev as waiter Kurdyumov
• Michael Solodovnik as Attila
• Alexander Bespaly as hospitable host
• Eugene Zernov as cook

Awards

• Gold Hugo at 25th Chicago Film Festival for best international feature film in 1989^[2]
• Silver prize at Valladolid International Film Festival in 1988
• Karen Shakhnazarov won award by European Science Fiction Society as best author and screenwriter in Soviet Union at Eurocon, 1989 in San Marino (Italy).

See also

• List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Soviet submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

• Zerograd on IMDb