Year Of The Dog

Since the fall of Soviet Communism, cinema from the former USSR has concentrated on dour dramas lamenting the inequities of the departed system and the inadequacies of the new. Despite a strong sense of beating a dead horse, THE YEAR OF THE DOG has a brilliant pair of central performances and an eerie setting for its screed.

Nervy, tattooed Seryoscha Khozin (Igor Skljar) has spent 17 of his 30 years in prison. Paroled, he rejects his family and fixates instead on Vera Morozova (Inna Churikova), a divorced, middle-aged food inspector whose pocketbook he's pinched. She takes a somewhat motherly romantic interest in the rebellious punk and takes him to tony art ev...