KVN (1965)

Overview

This is chronic of the lives of Kharkiv students whose stable life was suddenly disrupted by "KVN" (name and Russian abbreviation of the popular show Klub Vesyólykh i Nakhódchivykh? what translated in English as "Club of the Funny and Inventive"). A documentary collage consisting of images of fields and housing estates, young people having fun, or a university setting and staged scenes filled with humour and hyperbole, accompanied by a voiceover recalling propagandistic socio-critical documentaries.

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