The End of the World

(1963)

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1963

Runtime: 85 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Борис Бунеев

Cast: Станислав Соколов, Yevgeniya Kolmykova, Татьяна Пельтцер, Виталий Полицеймако, Станислав Любшин, Дая Смирнова, Варвара Попова, Владимир Ратомский, Евгений Крючков, Yuri Kharchenko

Plot

A satirical comedy with elements of metaphysical horror about religion in rural 1960s Soviet Russia. Notable for using first-person pseudo-documentary "found footage" technique framing the movie as the creation of the protagonist, who is returns to his home village from the city to discover that a local drunk has formed a doomsday cult.