Zerograd (Standard Edition) Pre-Order and filmmaker and podcaster Martin

and filmmaker and podcaster Martin Kessler

searching for the purpose of human existence -- if there is one

Slipcase featuring new artwork by Richard Cox

Director Shahram Mokri’s first feature is a delightfully offbeat B&W comedy about the mysterious workings of Fate

New audio commentary by film programmer and critic Tori Potenza

Zerograd (Standard Edition) Pre-Order and filmmaker and podcaster MartinZEROGRAD, 1988, Mosfilm, 103 min. Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, director Karen Shakhnazarovs surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. Hes quickly drawn into the investigation of the suicide (or possibly murder?) of a local restaurant chef, Nikolaev who may (or may not) be Varakins