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Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery - they are all fading away. Everything else seems more important.
The short film, co-produced by Estonia, Sweden and France, is an absurd and tragicomical fairytale about the unhappy life of an unknown and poor magician.
Documentary directed by Andres Sööt has recorded the years of 1996 and 1997 as a continuation to the earlier annual film chronicles "Year of the Dragon" and "Year of the Horse".
