If you loved Hard to Be a God, try Khrustalyov, My Car!
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Khrustalyov, My Car! has roughly 3.3× fewer votes than Hard to Be a God — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Aleksei German, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Hard to Be a God, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Khrustalyov, My Car! is
Apparently someone thought Stalinist Russia needed a laugh. General Klenski is arrested in 1953. It mostly succeeds at being weird.
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