Movie
1966
Beware of the Car is a 1966 Soviet crime comedy drama film directed by Eldar Ryazanov, based on a screenplay by Emil Braginsky and produced by Mosfilm. It stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Oleg Yefremov, Andrei Mironov and Anatoli Papanov, among others. Beware of the Car is recognized as a satire of the film noir genre, highly unusual in Brezhnev-era society. It is credited for launching Soviet political satire as a…
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As the film noir genre continued to boom with interest in the west, the Soviet Union decided to take a shot at the genre itself. Crime and comedy were already genres that were doing quite well in the USSR, with plenty of great titles around. But thinking about it prior to watching: I didn't recall ever seeing a Soviet era film that I would actually consider to be noir, or at least in a similar fashion to what I had…More
