Mars

Mars

2004 · 100 min · ★ 5.6 · Comedy, Drama

Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, Boris, a former boxing who is running from something, wakes up in train and see four letters MAR_S. From his first steps he starts to meet new people as Gregori, young man with a dream who is in love with local librarian, Greta, whose dream is to get out from this god-forgotten town. With each new step, he is meeting new people, but the past is hard to escape

Directed by Anna Melikyan · Written by Anna Melikyan

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Nana Kiknadze Greta
Artur Smolyaninov Grigori
Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya Galka
Elena Morozova Vera
Yana Esipovich Girl with plait
Gosha Kutsenko Boris Nikitin (as Gosha Kutsenko)
Aleksandra Skachkova Lyudmila (as Aleksandra Berezovets-Skachkova)
Nadezhda Kamenkovitch Nadya (as Nadya Kamenkovich)
Alexander Ilin
Gali Abaydulov
Andrey Batukhanov
Vladimir Kremena

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