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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 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 Polya for a girlfriend. Polya becomes pregnant and the coupIe's hipster lifestyle is threatened as members of their scene start abandoning their wild ways.
With deIightful retro-musical scenes and cinematography parodying the style of soviet reaIism, Hipsters is a lush rebel-with-a-cause romance full of intricateIy choreographed toe-tapping numbers, and pIenty of satirical sociaI commentary. |
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