Dogs' Feast

1990 film

Natalya Gundareva
Sergey Shakurov
Larisa Udovichenko
Anna Polikarpova
Kristina Denga

CinematographyVladimir KovzelEdited byIrina RudenkoMusic byAndrei Petrov

Production
company

Lenfilm

Release date

1990 (1990)

Running time

100 min.CountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

Dogs' Feast (Russian: Собачий пир, romanized: Sobachiy pir) is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Menaker.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Plot

Drunk, downcast Zhanna, dreams of finding a prince, starting a new life. On New Year's Eve, at the train station, where she works as a cleaner, she meets Arkady, sitting dejectedly at the station. Boredom brings him home, and then it turns out that Arkady does not drink. He doesn't drink, and the reason is in his past. This is followed by the usual pictures of permanent alcoholism for Zhanna. Arkady in all these scenes shows the features of a mysterious man from nowhere, holding himself with unprecedented dignity and refusing alcohol. Zhanna also retains something human in her eyes, despite constant swearing and drunkenness. Everything becomes clear when they visited Leningrad together. There Arkady a former alcoholic and hard worker, who was in prison for a fight - learns that his wife and children have abandoned him. He gets drunk, and Zhanna carefully takes him back and begins to nurse him. In the end, desperate and realizing that Arkady had not discovered her inner world, did not see in her a person capable of love and compassion, she turned on the gas before lying down next to him.^[4]