In Skazka, Alexander Sokurov weaves digital magic to create a phantasmagorical vision of the Afterlife, worthy of Dante. But wait: are we in the limbo of Purgatory, or a paradoxical Paradise reserved for notorious men of world history? Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and more: all are present and accounted for. Since they exist only as archival media images, each figure comes in a serial set. In the blackest of political comedies, these fallen men beg, in turn, to be let through Heaven’s Gate – but the angels who peek through never open wide. Little wonder, as the former leaders wander listlessly, bitching (in a Babel of multiple languages) about each other’s clothes, hair and hygiene. In what is effectively a work of animation, Sokurov has pulled together many talents into an extraordinary technological feat. It blends pictorial elements from art history to form an endlessly unfolding landscape, replete with fog and ghostly armies of the sacrificed victims of history. Announced as Sokurov’s last film, Skazka is an inspired riff on the high culture of Peter Greenaway mixed with the low culture of mash-up artists Soda_Jerk. Can we now expect some entrepreneur to bring us the interactive Skazka video game?
Gosha is a trucker; he delivers goods to remote Arctic parts of Yakutia. He is a monopolist and his services are expensive. His greed lures him into making a run without a backup-driver. His truck breaks down in the middle of the road. Gosha is trying to fix it when an accident occurs. Now he is face to face with ruthless Arctic wilderness and death is only one breath away.
故事发生在1942年的夏天,瓦斯柯夫准尉(皮欧特·费奥多罗夫 Pyotr Fyodorov 饰)带领着他的女机枪手们驻扎在一处偏远的村庄中,某日,班长丽达(阿纳斯塔西娅·米库齐娜 Anastasiya Mikulchina 饰)意外的撞破了两个德国士兵要袭击苏联重要军事基地的阴谋,她火速将这一消息带回了部队中。 瓦斯柯夫准尉带领着丽萨(索菲亚·列别杰娃 Sofya Lebedeva 饰)、迦尔卡(克里斯蒂娜·阿斯姆斯 Kristina Asmus 饰)、索妮娅(雅戈尼娅·库兹涅佐娃 Agniya Kuznetsova 饰)、冉妮娅(叶夫根尼娅·马拉霍娃 Zhenya Malakhova 饰)和丽达,这五名部队里的精锐人员前往丛林之中一探究竟,等待着姑娘们的,除了狡猾的敌人外,还有非常恶劣的自然环境。
艾利克斯(康斯坦丁·拉朗尼柯 Konstantin Lavronenko 饰)和妻子薇拉(玛利亚·邦妮薇 Maria Bonnevie 饰)带着孩子们来到了位于乡间的老家度假,这里闲适的生活和优美的风景安抚了一家人疲惫的心灵。 正当艾利克斯沉浸在宁静的情绪中时,薇拉告诉丈夫自己怀孕的消息,让艾利克斯震惊的是,薇拉坦陈,腹中孩子并不是艾利克斯的骨肉。在巨大的打击之下,艾利克斯找到了兄弟马克(亚历山大·巴鲁耶夫 Aleksandr Baluev 饰),向他倾吐胸中的愤懑,在两人的商讨之中,艾利克斯决定让妻子堕胎。不幸的是,薇拉死在了手术台上,艾利克斯的世界崩溃了,他的悲伤和愤怒化为了仇恨,他发誓要找到妻子的情人,让他也尝一尝和自己一样的滋味。
亨利(伊利亚·奈舒勒 Ilya Naishuller 饰)在某场事故中失去了记忆,连自己的名字都不记得了,他只知道眼前的这个美丽的女人艾斯戴尔(海莉·贝内特 Haley Bennett 饰)是自己的妻子。然而很快,艾斯戴尔就被一个名叫阿康(丹尼拉·科兹洛夫斯基 Danila Kozlovskiy 饰)的男人给绑架了。 阿康是一个野心勃勃的邪恶的男人,他拥有自己的军队和军火库,人生的目标就是统治世界。在全无记忆的状态下,亨利必须在时限内奋力营救自己的妻子,想要置他于死地的人貌似很多,可亨利也不知道他们究竟是为了什么。亨利可以相信的,只有一个叫做吉米(沙尔托·科普雷 Sharlto Copley 饰)的男人,但是这个神秘的男人真的可以信赖吗?