Epic dystopia based on the script by Vladimir Sorokin and Aleksandr Zeldovich references the classic Russian novels and offers an insight into Russia’s future which is already here.
Russia, 2020. The Minister of Natural Resources Viktor (Maksim Sukhanov), his beautiful wife Zoya (Justine Waddell), a TV celebrity (Danila Kozlovsky), and a colonel of Guanzhou-Paris highway customs (Vitaly Kishchenko) fly to Altai, where lies an abandoned Soviet-era secret facility called "the Target". Cosmic radiation from this giant antenna grants eternal youth. The group spends a night in "the Target" without realizing what price they must pay for the immortality gained.
Target by Aleksandr Zeldovich is a 2011 film about Russia in the near future which is becoming relevant in the present context. It is one of the few Russian dystopias which risk predicting the upcoming reality. The film was first screened at the Berlin Film Festival and later awarded best picture of the year at the Fantasporto International Film Festival (Porto), but is still undiscovered by most Russian viewers. Target universe was co-created by the AES+F art group and architect Aleksandr Pavlov. The script was written by Aleksandr Zeldovich and Vladimir Sorokin. The music for the film was created by Leonid Desyatnikov and performed by the leading musicians—Marta Argerich and Guido Kremer—at the main concert venues of the world.
Garage Screen presents the second premiere of the film in the 4K format. The screening is supported by B!G BANG by Boris Bernaskoni within the framework of his Russian Utopia project.
Target
Directed by: Aleksandr Zeldovich
Cinematography by: Aleksandr Ilkhovskiy
Produced by: Dmitriy Lesnevskiy
Russia, 2011. 158 min. 18+
