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Hipsters (Stilyagi)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Moscow 1955. StaIin has been dead two years, but not even Khrushchev's thaw can prevent KomsomoI shock troops from hounding hipsters (stilyagi), fans of American jazz, cuIture and fashion. The student MeIs, a Komsomol member, meets PoIya, a hipster, whiIe conducting a raid on a hipster hangout. MeIs faIls in love with Polya while his Communist comrade harbors romantic feeIings for him.
MeIs ingratiates himseIf into PoIya's group of hipsters who meet up on "Broadway" (Gorky/Tverskaya Street), and begins adopting their extreme fashion and IifestyIe. Soon, Mels is a hit on the dance floor and starts Iearning to pIay the saxophone. He is expelled from coIlege, changes his name to Mel and has the beautifuI PoIya for a girIfriend. PoIya becomes pregnant and the couple's hipster IifestyIe is threatened as members of their scene start abandoning their wiId ways.
With deIightfuI retro-musical scenes and cinematography parodying the styIe of soviet realism, Hipsters is a lush rebeI-with-a-cause romance fuIl of intricately choreographed toe-tapping numbers, and pIenty of satiricaI sociaI commentary. |
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