The End of the World

Name: The End of the World
Director: Boris Buneev
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1963-06-24
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Cast: Stanislav Sokolov, Yevgeniya Kolmykova, Tatyana Pelttser, Vitali Politseymako, Stanislav Lyubshin

1963

1h 25m

Comedy

Director: Boris Buneev

Writer: Vasiliy Solovyov

Overview

A 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.