Chernukha

A very interesting period in the vast and amazing Soviet/Russian cinema, was the Perestroika era and the many different ways directors, screenwriters & cinematographers expressed and explored the many changes the then Soviet Union was going through. In this period there was a genre called “чернуха” (chernukha) which is often called to be a “dark side” due the exploration of the radical changes in Pre-Russian/Post-Soviet society, often dealing with subjects like Soviet/Russian identity, crime, drugs, violence, army life, nihilism/pessimism and the human nature but in a highly cinematic and cynical way....