STALIN'S SKYSCRAPER (UK PREMIERE)
Part of Double Bill: Stalin's Skyscraper + Detroit: Run Of A City
Dir: Pavel Lounguine
The Moscow skyscraper was Stalin's pet project, envisioned in the spirit of a Communist utopia but in reality built by prisoners of war and Gulag detainees to house KGB agents and the Moscow Intelligentsia. Shot in the ghostly corridors, and told through the stories of the residents, this is an ironic, off-beat portrait of modern-day Russia.
With thanks to BBC Storyville.