Bite the Dust (film)
Bite the Dust is a 2013 film directed by Taisia Igumentseva. It was screened out-of-competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It is a touching comedy-drama with a subversive undercurrent of humorous criticism of the Russian government and modern Russian mores. It is sparsely but beautifully filmed.Synopsis
The handful of inhabitants of a tiny and isolated contemporary Russian rural village receives the news from state media that the 90% of humanity is about to perish due to a coronal mass ejection. The old man of the village doesn't believe the news, but nonetheless the village prepares one last party as they await the apocalypse, a party at which all the secret thoughts and desires of the villagers will be revealed and manifested in the belief that the end is nigh.
