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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.
In this cold world one innocent joke is enough to release an avalanche of an argument.
On the day preceding the St. John’s celebration, tens of thousands of people wait for hours in a queue that stretches for kilometers, in order to board the barge that will take them to the island Saaremaa.
Jaak Kilmi and Aleksandr Heifets portray seemingly random group of people who for some or another reason stand, sit or lie down while waiting in a shop queue.
Documentary about the lack of garages at the end of 1980s.
