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Zero City

Play trailer Zero City 1988,  1h 43m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 86% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 85% 250+ Ratings Popcornmeter
86% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 85% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
An engineer goes to a small town to give exact measurements for a machine part, and when he arrives, he discerns that everyone is crazy. He finds a secretary working naked, several people who think he is rock 'n' roll star, and a man committing suicide. After this, he is trapped and cannot leave the town.

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Derek Smith Slant Magazine Mar 12, 2025
Karen Shakhnazarov’s absurdist satire Zerograd paints a vivid, unnerving portrait of a nation-state whose warped vision of itself has begun to crack. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader Apr 4, 2011
None of this exactly goes anywhere, but Shakhnazarov manages to keep it amusing and watchable. Go to Full Review
Caryn James New York Times Apr 4, 2011
A deliciously cheerful satire about the legacy of Stalin, personal identity and the political importance of rock-and-roll. Go to Full Review
Christopher Llewellyn Reed Film Festival Today Oct 26, 2022
3/4
For us, it’s all a lot of fun, even if some of the jokes become stale after a bit. Who knew the end of a world could be such a delight? Go to Full Review
Diane Carson KDHX (St. Louis) Sep 15, 2022
Delivering it all in a carefree fashion, co-writer Shakhnazarov keeps his cards close to his chest, never wink-winking at the audience. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Karen Shakhnazarov

Director

Leonid Filatov

Aleksei Varakin

Oleg Basilashvili

The Writer

Vladimir Menshov

The Prosecutor

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

The Factory Director

Yevgeni Yevstigneyev

The Museum Director

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Zero City

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Movie Info

Synopsis An engineer goes to a small town to give exact measurements for a machine part, and when he arrives, he discerns that everyone is crazy. He finds a secretary working naked, several people who think he is rock 'n' roll star, and a man committing suicide. After this, he is trapped and cannot leave the town.
Director
Karen Shakhnazarov
Screenwriter
Karen Shakhnazarov, Aleksandr Borodyansky
Production Co
Mosfilm
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Russian
Runtime
1h 43m
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