Exceptions Without Rules

May 3, 1986

1h 35m

★ 6.2

Overview

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

Genres

Comedy

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Lenfilm

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Cast

Boris Toporkov/Bob (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Viktor Bychkov

Luiza - inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Olga Samoshina

inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Yuri Aroyan

inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Aleksandr Vidgop

ekskursovod-perevodchik (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Rashel Gedalyova

master na fabrike igrushek (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Sergei Losev

inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Sergey Okman

inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Aleksey Babutskiy

(Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

L. Buryakova

(Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Vladimir Vasilyev

inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Tsilya Gedalyova

inturist (Isklyuchenie 1: «Ekskursant»)

Mikhail Georgievskiy

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

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0.0

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