Five bottles of vodka

The film is about the backstage life of an ordinary Moscow bar, where the relationship between the owner, the “ roof ” and the employees is very reminiscent of family ones. However, unlike the family, these people are connected by a joint business, the roles in which are far from equivalent. Relations of submission and oppression permeate the whole life of the heroes of this film.

The owner of the bar is a drug addict and alcoholic Alexander Aleksandrovich (Sanych) ( A. Maslaev ), who gets drunk at work before bouts of vomiting aggravated by drug addiction. Two janitors live in the back room, janitor Mychalkin ( D. Vasiliev ) is hunchbacked and, possibly, mentally retarded , as he does not speak and communicate with inarticulate mooing. Another janitor is a little more savvy, but, like Sanych, indulges in drugs.

The plot of the film begins with Mychalkin stealing 5 bottles of vodka from the bar and bringing them to the first cleaner ( S. Pakhomov ). Sanych is very worried about this (at the spill it is sold at a bar much more expensive) and is trying in every possible way to identify the thief, suspecting the theft of both cleaners. At the same time, the first cleaner solders Mychalkin, at the same time telling him how beautiful it is to live with money, and breaks the bottles on his own head, sometimes singing the Beatles song “ Yesterday ” to Mychalkin .

Sanych is constantly trying to exploit both cleaners, forcing them to clean the premises of the bar and its terrace all the time. Defective Mychalkin can not resist the bullying of Sanych, but the first cleaner, despite the oppression, constantly snarls at his chef and promises to one day "deal" with him. At the same time, the depressing black stripper (Dillon Oloyeda as himself) declares to everyone that he can no longer dance because of the fatigue, depression and voices in his head. The first cleaner explains to the stripper that he is a great man who does not know the horrors of hard work, since his only task is to show his genitals to visitors, for which he receives a lot of money, thanks to which it is possible to live on Maroseyka. Then the first cleaner is coated with a chocolate cocktail and begins to dance a striptease, replacing Dillon, shocking Mychalkin with this.

Dillon comes to Sanych and asks to let him go, because he is tired and he no longer has the strength to endure the voices that settled in his head. The furious Sanych claims that he cannot let go of the stripper, who is a large source of his income. Then he replaces anger with mercy, promises to buy Dillon a new car and reassures him, assuring him that there are no votes, and the best way to get rid of depression is to return to dance, especially since he does it for money. The happy stripper returns to his workplace. Sanych pours out the accumulated rage on the cleaners, one of whom dumps everything on Mychalkin. Then he gives them a lecture on how to dress stylishly and take an example from him.

A "roof" comes ( V. Epifantsev ) and makes a strange order to Sanych: on the first day he wants a virgin, on the second - a virgin, and on the third - he wants his own death. If Sanych fulfills the order of the “roof”, then the debt will be written off, otherwise death awaits him. Frightened Sanych agrees. In parallel, the first cleaner drowns Mychalkin in a bucket and continues to gently talk to the body. He explains his behavior to the landlord by saying that Mychalkin “stole five bottles of vodara,” thus revealing part of the truth to Sanych. Sanych promises to reward the cleaner with a prize.

The bandit is brought in by a girl-waitress in a wedding dress ( M. Boltneva ) as a virgin, he has sex with her (while the cleaner standing next to him masturbates), after which she strangles her, calling her Desdemona . The cleaner puts the corpse next to the corpse of Mychalkin and calls them bride and groom. Sanych tells him that he threw the barmaid’s mother and instead of 500 dollars she would give her 200, and for the rest she would have sex with her. Shocked by this, the cleaner lights candles near the corpses of Mychalkin and the barmaid and sings church songs.

The next day, Sanych dresses up as a janitor’s wedding dress, promising to take him to the members of the Birch ensemble, after which he appears before the bandit as a virgin. The gangster conducts sexual conversations, considering the cleaner a girl and marveling at his beard, and then raping him. After that, Sanych locks the cleaner in the basement.

The next day, the bandit sings Julian ’s song “Break my heart for happiness” in karaoke , then Sanych chokes him with a microphone cord, and he dies, after which another Julian’s song “And it all goes away” sounds. Satisfied with himself, Sanych gets drunk with alcoholic drinks to nausea, after which he begins to puke , and then falls asleep from alcohol at the table.

The film was awarded the first diploma of the youth jury of the Kinoshok festival ^[1] . The picture brought Baskova in “certain circles” the status of a cult director ^[2] .

As noted by the magazine “ Cinema Art ”, “Five Bottles of Vodka” is “an arthouse totally devilish, destructive, extremely slurred and inexpressibly boring” ^[3] , dedicated to “idiocy of a modern person” ^[4] .

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