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Cargo 200 (2007)

Cargo 200 is set in an average Russian industrial town of Leninsk in late 1984 right after the demise of Gen Sec Andropov against the backdrop of agonizing Soviet regime's decay.

An airhead daughter of a local high ranking Communist Party official befriends a young dipsomaniac at a rural disco. After the party's over the lad offers to drive her home. But first he proposes to drop by at a nearby countryside community to replenish the supply of booze.

Eventually he leaves the girl in the car and walks to a farmhouse where dwells a family of an ex con who makes his living in trading home-brewed alcohol.

After a while the girl startled by a bystander (peeping at her through the windshield) rushes to the house only to find her stone dead drunk pal collapsing out of the table in front of the similarly wrecked host.

The (jealous) housewife aware of her husband's nasty temper locks the girl in a bath house promising to release her when the man calms down and falls asleep.

In the meantime the creepy guy that scared the girl enters the house and is offered a plate of mushroom soup. After boarding with the family's domestic helper, a Vietnamese handyman, the man requests the latter to open the bath house for him.

There they discover the poor girl paralyzed with fear hiding in the distant room.

That's where all the "fun" begins.

The next morning the sleepy little town is overwhelmed by sinister rumors of the missing apparatchik's daughter and the slaughter of the Vietnameze helper at the neighborhood's household. (IMDB Abominog)

'Loosely based on Faulkner's novel "Sanctuary", being one of many examples of literary influences for Balabanov's films.' (IMDB) FN