What is it all about? Not speaking a lick of Russian I, frankly, have no real idea but upcoming Russian feature Я looks to be one stylish drug trip of a film. Mental illness, the artificiality of film, bursts of violence, slickly surreal imagery, flower power, you name it ... it's all in here, all of it packaged in one extremely slick package. If any of our Russian speaking readers can shed some light on the actual content of the thing it'd be much appreciated but for the rest: you can check out the first trailer now!
"Я" translated as "I", and the film is about a generation of a young, just over 30 Russians, born and grown up under soviet regime, but finished their adolescence in a different time, when everything they believed in as children turned out to be only illusion.
It's a story of one of them, a man that in order to skip his military service at 18, pretends he is crazy and spends a time in psychiatric clinic. After long period of forceful therapy he is released, and years later, after studying journalism, he gets involved in the Chechen war as documentary filmmaker. Being shot and in condition of clinical death, he remembers his past, summarizing the spirit, desires and the conflicts of his generation.
The film, basically, happens in the mind of a dying man.
Link to film's poster
Hope it helps. :)
The trailer here is not complete. It is 15 seconds, while original is 1:26.
I Love Oksana Akinshina.