Zerograd (Standard Edition) Pre-Order searching for the purpose of

searching for the purpose of human existence -- if there is one

New audio commentary by film programmer and critic Tori Potenza

Shahram Mokri’s breakout second feature is an unclassifiably brilliant

The film was written

Zerograd (Standard Edition) Pre-Order searching for the purpose ofZEROGRAD, 1988, Mosfilm, 103 min. Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, director Karen Shakhnazarovs surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. Hes quickly drawn into the investigation of the suicide (or possibly murder?) of a local restaurant chef, Nikolaev who may (or may not) be Varakins