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In Russia, everyone knows the saying: "Do not swear off jail and beggary". The hero of the film, Vladimir Suslov, knows it the more so: he was imprisoned in Brezhnev’s time (communist regime), in the time of Gorbachev (the so-called "perestroika"), as well as during Yeltsin’s period (already a relatively democratic power). To sum it up, Vladimir Suslov can be quoted from the film: "I grew up in a street which was first called Beria Street, then Pobedy (Victory) Street, then Stalin Street and finally it was renamed into Lenin Street", then it turns out that Suslov’s life story presents in a certain sense the Russian history in the last 60 years. Suslov has never been a dissident. "I have earned all my terms with my fist", he says. That is, he served all his four terms of 20 years in total for hooliganism. The sort of unrestrained man he is. Suslov tells about the specifics of Russian penitentiary system (its official name) directed in fact to physical and moral humiliation of convicts. Vivid monologues of Suslov reveal all stages of his life, beginning from early childhood. But most of all, he likes to speak about jazz – which is the greatest passion of his complicated and contradictory character.

Russia - 2006 - 49 mn - DV Cam - Colour

Director Anatoly Baluyev Writer Anatoly Baluyev Camera Vassiliy Polyakov Sound Alexey Kernozhitsky Editing Nadiejda Rogozina

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