Hipsters (Stilyagi)

A smash success in Russia and winner of top NIKA Awards including Best Film, Best Sound, Best Art Design, and Best Costume Design, HIPSTERS is a candy-colored musical set in the drab Soviet Union of the 1950s. More political than "Hairspray," and way cooler than "High School Musical," it inspired a wave of Hipster parties across Russia. The movie sets to music the story of a strait-laced young Communist party member named Mels. In the midst of a raid on a group of kids caught wearing American-style clothes and listening to jazz, he's smitten with an adorable Hipster named Polly, who sports bright red lipstick and a poodle skirt. Casting caution and his grey uniform to the wind, the newly christened "Mel" barters on the street for a saxophone and a snappy checkered suit with huge lapels, and soon he's cultivating an awe-inspiring pompadour. But as the Hipsters face growing up in Cold War society, they realize that life isn't always a song and dance. (In Russian with subtitles) – B.B.

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Category	Music! Movies!, Central and Eastern European Film Competition
Producer	Leonid Lebedev, Leonid Yarmolnik, Vadim Goryainov, Valery Todorovsky
Screenplay	Yuri Korotkov
Cinematography	Roman Vasyanov
Editing	Alexey Bobrov
Principal Cast	Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Evgeniya Brik, Maxim Matveev, Sergey Garmash, Oleg Yankovsky
Director Bio	Valery Todorovsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. He studied screenwriting at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).
Select Filmography	"Mortuary Car" (1989), "Love" (1991), "The Land of the Deaf" (1997), "The Lover" (2002), "My Stepbrother Frankenstein" (2004) – 28th CIFF, "Vice" (2007), HIPSTERS (2008)
Print Source	Red Arrow-Krasnaya Strela Company davidenkoDA@gmail.com www.krasnayastrela.ru

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Past Screenings

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM
* Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 7:15 PM
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 10:00 PM