Zerograd

Zerograd

97 mins | Drama, Comedy | Oct. 1, 1988

An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.

Zerograd

97 mins | Drama, Comedy | Oct. 1, 1988

Zerograd
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Город Зеро
Directors Karen Shakhnazarov
Writers Karen Shakhnazarov, Aleksandr Borodyanskiy

Cast

Leonid Filatov

as Aleksei Varakin

Oleg Basilashvili

as Vasiliy Chugunov, The Writer

Vladimir Menshov

as Nikolay Smorodinov, The Prosecutor

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

as Pal Palych, the factory manager

Aleksei Zharkov

as investigator

Pyotr Shcherbakov

as Stepan Ivanov, chairman of the city executive committee

Evgeniy Evstigneev

as museum curator

Olga Konovalova

as Liza

Yuriy Sherstnyov

as Kudryumov, waiter

Yelena Arzhanik

as Nina, secretary

Misak Gevorkyan

as young Stalin

Oleg Savosin

as mushroom picker

Lev Lugkovsky

as rock'n'roll night visitor (uncredited)