Form follows function in THE OUTPOST, a spare allegory for the fates of many a dissident or victim of political purges.
Gizella (Mari Nagy), a middle-aged engineer, is informed by superiors that she has been promoted to oversee a field site. The divorced woman bids a bittersweet goodbye to friends and co-workers and embarks for the company outpost. Her train terminates at a filthy mining settlement, where the male
handlers treat the newcomer with scorn and barely-suppressed lust, as Gizella is stripped and her books confiscated. Sullen men pumping a railway handcart convey her far into the snowy mountains. On the way, she glimpses another expedition dragging bac...
Released:
1995
Rated:
NR
Length:
84 mins