The Opportunist

The Opportunist

classified 12A S

part of Slapstick Festival 2025

Film

Fri 14 Feb 2025 13:30

Director
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Cast
Dora Feller-Spikovskaya, Dimitry Kaka, Luka Lyashenko
Details
77 mins, & Subtitled, 1929, Soviet Ukraine

A small-time black-marketeer loathe to shed his capitalist ways tries to work the chaos of the Bolshevik takeover to his advantage.

That he ends up in charge of a camel in a Red Army convoy is just one in a succession of absurdities as he’s buffeted by whoever are the currently prevailing idealogues.

Hilariously insightful about ordinary people and the politically overzealous, it was naturally banned by Soviet apparatchiks.


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