The first truthful foreign film about Russians

I saw this film yesterday at the Moscow Film Festival, and I was surprised by it's quality. It's a ultra low-budget project, made  without expensive gadgets, like DOGMA-films. It's good acting with russian and austrian actors and it's a worth seeing because, to my mind, it's a unique foreign  film, where Russians aren't dull savages, drinking vodka all day long. Of course Russians drink vodka, but not all the time. Barbara Graftner shows the difference between Russian and Austrian cultures, but nobody is condemned in her film. It's a good way of thinking, I suppose. And the last one, it's a very funny film.

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