Plots(1)
Cargo 200 begins in 1984 with the introduction of two brothers: a Soviet Army colonel, and the head of the Faculty of Scientific Communism at Leningrad University. The university professor travels to visit his mother in a remote town. When his car brakes down, he stops at a rural farmhouse occupied by a husband, wife and their Vietnamese farm hand. The professor engages in a philosophical argument about the existence of God with the family patriarch, whose heated criticisms of official atheism are fueled by Utopian dreams and vodka distilled in the family barn.
Meanwhile, a young man and the daughter of a Soviet secretary of a regional party committee meet at a party. The couple decides to take a drive, and their destination is the rural farmhouse. Lurking in the shadows of the farmhouse is Zhurov, a character vaguely based on Russian serial killer Gennady Mikhasevich. Although Mikhasevich was simply a depraved lunatic, Balabanov presents Zhurov as an emblem of both human perversion and the manifest corruption of the Soviet government. Zhurov’s appearance signals a series of loathsome events that form the rest of the film's narrative.
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Natalja Akimova
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Aleksey Serebryakov
Soviet Union
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Leonid Bichevin
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Dmitriy Kubasov
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Michajl Skrjabin
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Александр Мосин
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Aleksandr Bashirov
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Agniya Kuznetsova
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Леонид Громов
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Yuriy Stepanov
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Olga Kirsanova-Miropolskaya
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Марк Гаврилов
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Alyona Falaleeva
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Aleksandr Ustinov
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Константин Балакирев
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Andrey Mokeev
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Anzhelika Nevolina
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Dmitriy Karpov
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