Section: It's all go in the East

Taksi-Blyuz

Taxi Blues

Pavel Lungin

Soviet Union, 1990, 110 Min

The locals in Moscow have different ways of dealing with the country's slow unleashing through Gorbachev's perestroika. One of them steers his taxi stoically through the city's myriad streets and hardens his body by means of a merciless training routine whilst another inspires his fellow men as a musician, blossoming at night only to return to reality the next sobering morning.

Coincidence brings taxi driver Shlykov and saxophone player Lyosha together, in the process creating a complicated friendship between two very different yet lonely individuals. For both of them the reforms of the perestroika era lead to a loss of order, as foundations are shaken and philosophies of life put to the test. Before making his directorial debut TAXI BLUES director Pavel Lungin worked as a screenwriter for many years. He won over Pëtr Mamonov, the late Soviet rock star and front man of the Moscow band Zvuki Mu, for the role of the eccentric saxophonist.

Filmformat
1:1,66

Drehbuch
Pavel Lungin

Kamera
Denis Evstigneev

Ton
2.0 Stereo

Schnitt
Elizabeth Guido

Ausstattung
Valery Yurkevich

Musik
Vladimir Chekasin

Darsteller
Pyotr Mamonov
Pyotr Zaichenko

Produzent
Alexander Golutva, Mark Gekht, Marin Karmitz, Pierre Rival

Produktion
TROITSKY MOST Studios

Co-Produktion
MK-2 Productions, TV Channel 7 France

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