Kokoshkafilm · Proven & Limited

And depending on who you ask, it is either the most brilliant underground animation studio of the Perestroika era... or a ghost story with a film reel attached. Let’s rewind to 1989. The Soviet Union is creaking at the hinges. Glasnost means censorship is (mostly) dead. Suddenly, artists aren't making propaganda; they are making nightmares.

Rumors say Rurik Kokoshka abandoned the studio to become a monk in Valaam Monastery. Others say he moved to Berlin and works as a urologist under a pseudonym. The most cinematic theory? He deliberately burned the negatives of his last film, Requiem for a Samovar , claiming "the film was breathing wrong." kokoshkafilm

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