Chattanooga Choo Choo

Дорога на Чаттанугу

Four former friends — young hipsters once obsessed with jazz — meet up in a Moscow apartment. Twenty years have passed. What's become of them? How have they changed? Who managed to hold on to the free-spiritedness of the sixties, and who — even back then — already knew how to play the game and land on their feet inside the communist system? Everyone has a choice to make in life. So what do we choose? What compromises do we make, and what for?

Director: Anatoliy Vasilyev
Cast: Albert Filozov, Yuriy Grebenshchikov, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Lydia Savchenko, Tatyana Mayst

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Anatoliy Vasiliev

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The story is set in 1970s Moscow. Four youthhood friends — all former hipsters in their younger days — reunite twenty years after going their separate ways. They gather in a Moscow apartment to remember their vibrant youth, when jazz was their obsession. One of them, Bems (Albert Filozov), was once crazy about Glenn Miller; now he works as a construction engineer. Back in the 1950s, he ran into trouble with Ivchenko (Emmanuil Vitorgan), a Komsomol official who led the crackdown on jazz, which Soviet ideology saw as subversive. Bems was kicked out of college as a result and had to fight to stay afloat. Now, his biggest challenge is reaching his daughter — who wants nothing to do with him.