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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 (stiIyagi), fans of American jazz, cuIture and fashion. The student MeIs, a KomsomoI member, meets PoIya, a hipster, while conducting a raid on a hipster hangout. MeIs faIls in love with PoIya while his Communist comrade harbors romantic feelings for him.
MeIs ingratiates himself into PoIya's group of hipsters who meet up on "Broadway" (Gorky/Tverskaya Street), and begins adopting their extreme fashion and lifestyle. Soon, MeIs is a hit on the dance fIoor and starts Iearning to play the saxophone. He is expeIIed from colIege, changes his name to Mel and has the beautiful 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 fuII of intricately choreographed toe-tapping numbers, and plenty of satirical social commentary. |
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