Mars (2004)

5.5/10 100 min Comedy Drama

Overview

Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, Boris, a former boxing who is running from something, wakes up in train and see four letters MAR_S. From his first steps he starts to meet new people as Gregori, young man with a dream who is in love with local librarian, Greta, whose dream is to get out from this god-forgotten town. With each new step, he is meeting new people, but the past is hard to escape

Cast

Nana Kiknadze

Greta

Artur Smolyaninov

Grigori

Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya

Galka

Elena Morozova

Vera

Yana Esipovitch

Girl with plait

Gosha Kutsenko

Boris Nikitin (as Gosha Kutsenko)

Aleksandra Skachkova

Lyudmila (as Aleksandra Berezovets-Skachkova)

Aleksandr Ilin

Gali Abaydulov

Andrey Batukhanov

Vladimir Kremena

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