100 Days, Comrade Soldier

LGBTQ Stories, History

67 min

FSK 16

"100 Days, Comrade Soldier" from 1990 is considered one of the few classics of gay cinema from Russia, where homosexuality is still taboo. A film like a dream - visually stunning, stirring, soulful and radical. Now in a digitally restored version.

Director
Hussein Erkenov
Cast
Armen Daigarhanian, Lena Kondulainen, ...
Original language(s)
Russian
Credits
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Year
1990
Country
Russia
Genre
LGBTQ Stories, History
Cast
Armen Daigarhanian, Lena Kondulainen, Aleksandr Chislov u.a.
FSK Rating
FSK 16
Original title
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Release date
04.08.2022
Synopsis
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nspired by a story by the Russian writer Kuri Poljakov, director Hussein Erkenov uses incomparably poetic images to tell the story of five young men who do not survive their military service in the Soviet army: exposed to a merciless cycle of everyday violence, they try to resist the constant humiliation and injuries desperately defending their dignity. With their comrades they always find moments of happiness, of community closeness and solidarity. But the outcome of their hopeless struggle is clear from the start. Ultimately, they become the victims of a hierarchical system that the soldiers themselves are not innocent of maintaining.