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Taxi blues

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  • "Taksi-Blyuz"
  • "Taksi-blyuz"

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  • "A hard-working, patriotic taxi driver starts to go over the edge when he meets up with a flaky, westernized, Jewish jazz musician who represents everything the taxi driver despises ... and secretly desires."
  • "Ivan is a thick, dour, hard-working brute. He misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi. Alexi is a musician, an alcoholic, not to mention, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare and Ivan decides to track him down and a love-hate relationship ensues. When Alexi lets the bath water run over in Ivan's flat and Ivan must pay 500 rubles for repairs, he tries to force Alexi into day labor to repay him. Suddenly, Alexi is discovered and he goes on a jazz tour of America. He becomes a celebrity and return to Russia a triumph. Ivan longs to renew the friendship, and it looks as if he may get what he wants."
  • "Lungin described his first feature, a raucous black comedy, as 'a premonition of civil war ... between those who are embracing the new freedoms and those who are renouncing them'. The two central characters, a Moscow taxi driver with authoritarian tendencies and a Jewish jazz musician and feckless drunk, seem to represent these opposing tendencies but the outcome is not the simple dominance of one over the other. Initially the taxi driver Shlikov appears to subjugate the jazzman, Lyosha, to a position of complete subservience in retribution for the latter's fare evasion. But the situation changes when a visiting American musician recognises Lyosha's talent."
  • "Het verhaal over de vriendschap van een taxichauffeur en een saxofonist, een vriendschap die balanceert tussen liefde en haat."
  • "A hard-working Moscow taxi driver, pining for the old days of Communism, starts to go over the edge when he meets up with a flaky, westernized, Jewish jazz musician who represents everything the taxi driver despises ... and secretly desires. The two form an unlikely dependence on each other."
  • "SUMMARY: "Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a love-hate relationship ensues. When Alexi lets the bath water run over in Ivan's flat and Ivan must pay 500 rubles for repairs, he tries to force Alexi into day labor to repay him. It's hopeless. Then, suddenly, Alexi is discovered, goes on a jazz tour of America, becomes a celebrity, and returns in triumph. Ivan longs to renew the friendship, and it looks as if he may get what he wants." IMDB"
  • "Nella Mosca di Gorbaciov nasce una strana amicizia tra Liocha, sassofonista ebreo alcolizzato che vive solo per la musica, e Schlikov, tassista rozzo, violento e antisemita che bada soprattutto al denaro. (Morandini)."@it
  • "Schlikov est chauffeur de taxi à Moscou et ne vit que pour l'argent. Liocha est saxophoniste, alcoolique et juif. Ils se rencontrent dansle taxi. Entre les deux hommes s'instaure une relation étrange qui passe sans cesse de la haine à l'amitié. Après une série de nuits chaotiques, liocha finit par rencontrer le succès en devenant une une vedette internationale tandis que Schlikov reste surle pavé de Moscou, suffoquant d'injustice Ce premier film de Lounguine obtient le Prix de la mise en scène à Cannes."

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  • "Feature films"
  • "Adventure"
  • "Adventure films"
  • "Drammatico (Genere)"@it
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Action and adventure films"
  • "Foreign language films"
  • "Drama"
  • "Comedie dramatique/Drame psychologique"
  • "Features"
  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"

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  • "Taxi blues"@en
  • "Taxi blues"
  • "Taxi Blues"
  • "Taxi Blues"@it
  • "Taksi-Blyuz"@it
  • "Taxi blues = Taksi-Blyuz"
  • "Taksi-bli︠u︡z (Motion picture)"
  • "Taksi-bli︠u︡z (Motion picture)"@en

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