<p><strong>"In its lawlessness and chaos, the Russia of 1984 was every bit as grotesque as anything dreamed up in the realms of modernist fiction." - <em>Screen Daily</em></strong></p>

<p>Set on the eve of Perestroika, <em>Cargo 200</em> reveals a society contaminated by violence, where rape and kidnapping are rife and men drink themselves into vodka stupors. A lunatic police captain takes the law into his own hands, kidnapping the daughter of a local Communist Party leader, and causing mayhem and murder on the outskirts of town.<br />A crime story transformed into a portrait of a society teetering at the brink of social revolution, Alexey Balabanov's (<em>Brother, Of Freaks and Men</em>) 11th feature has been hailed by Russian critics as the most honest Russian film in years.<br />