"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.
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.
100 Days, Comrade Soldier | Yorck Kinos Berlin