Hammer and Sickle movieHammer and Sickle movie

Year: 1994

Duration: 01:37:10

Directed by: Sergey Livnev

Actors: Aleksey Serebryakov, Evdokiya Germanova, Marina Kajdalova, Zulfiya Khakimova, Nodar Mgaloblishvili

Language: Russian (English subtitles embedded)

Country: Russia

Also known as: Serp i molot, Серп и молот, Sfyrodrepano, Sierp i mlot

Description: An experiment is carried out that tranformed a woman into a man. This was a plan of Stalin’s in order to create more soldiers and workers. But Edvokim has to live with the psychological consequences of these changes. The movie follows him as he lives his new life as a man. He becomes a hero of the people and has a perfect socialist family. But under the surface, there are different feelings. But the system cannot allow him to indulge these feelings and he is turned even further into a product of the system.

“This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-force/army, etc. It’s a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now ‘he’) doesn’t really understand, especially since she’s now a man … Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of “Forrest Gump” in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation… However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing. ”

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 Hammer and Sickle AKA Serp i molot 1994

(English subtitles embedded)

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