What is the legacy of the Cold War in today's world? This is the question being posed by this brilliant and subtly crafted peace of satire. The opening scene sees a man, an American spy, emerge from a sewer in Moscow. A sewer seems a perfect representation of the past and present paranoia surrounding the relationship between the two superpowers. And despite recent efforts at normalization, these issues stay relevant today. To director's credit, the choice of locations perfectly highlights the mood of the movie. Sewers, archives, abandoned factories, and America's capitol all flow together to construct the deliciously absurd spy narrative. He also manages to squeeze decent performances out of his actors, who appear to be acting neophytes. Overall, an interesting work that in a strange way reignites nostalgia for the hot days of the Cold War.

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A man wearing rubber fishing boots comes out of a sewer pipe and embarks on an investigation of Russian dairy industry. His journey leads him to discover flabbergasting historical evidence that he cannot piece together without enlisting the help of a senior CIA officer. The film is a mock spy thriller. Reveling with conspiracy theories and cinematic spy cliches it rewrites the history of World War Two and questions the relevancy of espionage in an age of free information flow.

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