Zerograd

Zerograd (Russian: Город Зеро, Gorod Zero) is a 1989 Russian mystery film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov. Moscow engineer Alexey Varakin visits a small town on a business trip, where his adventures begin. He meets a naked secretary at a local factory, a prosecutor who wants to commit a crime and other strange characters. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Contents

• Zerograd zero city cake scene with english subtitles
• Zerograd
• Cast
• Awards
• References

Cast

Leonid Filatov as Alexey Varakin

Oleg Basilashvili as writer Vasily Chugunov

Vladimir Menshov as prosecutor Nikolay Smorodinov

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as factory director Pavel Palych

Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as keeper of local museum

Aleksei Zharkov as police detective

Pyotr Scherbakov as head of city party council

Elena Arzhanik as secretary

Tatiana Khvostikova as Anna

Yury Sherstnev as waiter Kurdyumov

Michael Solodovnik as Attila

Alexander Bespaly as hospitable host

Eugene Zernov as cook

Awards

Gold Hugo at 25th Chicago Film Festival for best international feature film in 1989

Silver prize at Valladolid International Film Festival in 1988

Karen Shakhnazarov won award by European Science Fiction Society as best author and screenwriter in Soviet Union at Eurocon, 1989 in San Marino (Italy).