The Garage

The Garage

1979 · 101 min · RU · 7.3 (101 votes)
Dir. Eldar Ryazanov · Starring Liya Akhedzhakova, Iya Savvina, Valentin Gaft, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Georgi Burkov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy · Music Andrey Petrov
ComedyDrama

An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...

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A tense, darkly comic chamber piece where simmering resentments boil over. It feels like a pressure cooker of absurd bureaucracy and quiet desperation, building to an unexpected, explosive climax. A true slow-burn.

absurdisttensedarkly comicclaustrophobicslow-burnarthousepolitical satireensemble dramacommunitybureaucracyrebellionpower dynamics
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