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Riaba Ma Poule (1993)
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
O tempora! O mores! Not only has Russian peasant life altered somewhat since Konchalovsky made Asya's Happiness back in '67, his talent has changed dramatically too - and not for the better. Here, he returns to the kolkhoz of the earlier and far superior film (featured, unwisely, in brief clips), and uses the same villagers to act out a bizarre, supposedly comic fable about the moral and social turmoil caused when Asya's chicken lays a golden egg. A broad, sour farce, that seems to argue that democracy can't succeed because the Russian peasants are so idle, greedy and stupid. Which wouldn't be so bad if it were funny or touching. But it's not. Awful.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Producer: Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast: Inna Churikova, Alexander Surin, Guennadi Iegoritchev, Guennadi Nazarov full cast
Duration: 117 mins
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