The End of the World
1963A satirical comedy with elements of metaphysical horror about religion in rural 1960s Soviet Russia. Notable for using first-person pseudo-documentary "found footage" technique framing the movie as the creation of the protagonist, who is returns to his home village from the city to discover that a local drunk has formed a doomsday cult.
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Stanislav Sokolov
as Sasha Likardokin
Yevgeniya Kolmykova
as Polya
Tatyana Pelttser
as Matryona
Vitali Politseymako
as Filin
Stanislav Lyubshin
as father Michail
Daya Smirnova
as mother Klavdiya
Varvara Popova
as Agafya
Vladimir Ratomsky
as old man Pafnutiy
Yevgeni Kryuchkov
as Fedya
Yuri Kharchenko
as Grisha Zubarik
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
as Egor Ivanovich
Viktor Sergachyov
as local militia man
Nikolai Pazhitnov
as lecturer
Oleg Vidov
as Akulina's dead son
Viktor Markin
as doctor (uncredited)
Kseniya Kozmina
as Polya's mother (uncredited)
Iya Marks
as Akulina