Aldebaran
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One of the best horror films of the 21st century as it relies on atmosphere and the acting skilla of a legend. Anyone who reduces Indian cinema to Bollywood has been dead for at least 20 years. How can you not know that there are multiple state industries producing five times as much output than Hollywood? And that Hindi musicals have long been over. Malayalam cinema is the best in the world.
This is even a political issue now because the UK government wants to withdraw ChannelFour funding for airing this. I don't understand straight men though (not that I'm watching, that would be like a splatter film for gays). Aren't they worried about catching STDs? If you get herpes or clap or syph you're a carrier for life, treatment cures the symptoms but doesn't remove the virus.
It's by Bulgakov not Gogol, and he was Russian although from Kyiv, his writing career was entirely in Moscow. He was a Menshevik doctor through the civil war. I like the film, it's ambitious and August Diehl is the best Voland I've seen. There could not be a Soviet version because the Soviets prohibited the book, it was not widely available until the late 1980s. The Bortko version is a TV series in 10 episodes, not a fair comparison. Polanski was to adapt it in 1989 but the project was dropped after the Berlin Wall fall.



