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Synopsis

Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. Visually astonishing and erotically charged, the film was banned by Soviet censors upon its initial release. Amazingly, all the roles are played by real-life soldiers except for one professional actor.

Review

While not overtly gay, this melancholy and dreamlike meditation on passive resistance and the disintegration of the rigidity of the Old Soviet is chock full of homoerotic imagery. In an army basic training facility, a group of young men engage in Jean Genet-like camaraderie and languid bathing rituals - with one hand gently washing the torso of another. The camera eyes these scenes of naked young flesh with a lush and sensuous tenderness. When not dwelling on male beauty, the almost silent film becomes a mystical, symbolic tale of the restlessness of a young Russian generation who long to be free of their Communist restraints.