Lalay-Balalay
Merry-Go-Round
Trailer
Shortly before they black out these men would appear to be up for anything: given the world now appears to be turning twice as fast as before, why not go the extra mile and take off. It is thus that Oleg takes his friends on a centrifugal carousel trip that brings more than they bargained for. As the saying goes pride comes before the fall, and it's no different here as the men follow the example of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) in placing their fate in the hands of an untamed machine.
Ruslan Bratov appears to take such pleasure in toying with the bright neon lights of his setting, as well as the lightness of his subject matter, that presumably even Kubrick himself would have enjoyed this minimalist work full of nuanced irony. JG
DCP | Farbe / colour
Ruslan Bratov, Grigory Dobrygin
Vladimir Ushakov
Maxim Belovolov, Filipp Lamshin
Alexander Torkunkov
Evgeny Sytiy, Aleksey Vertkov, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Sergei Abroskin, Aleksander Bashirov, Sergey Legostaev
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Ruslan Bratov - born 1986 in Cherkessk, Russia. In 2012 he graduated from the acting and directing departments of the Russian University of Theatre Arts. He has been working as an actor with several theatre troupes. LALAY-BALALAY is his debut as a film director.