亚历山大·巴希

叶莲娜·米哈伊洛夫娜住在省城，靠着微薄的退休金生活。很意外地，她拿出了关于自己的死亡诊断书，按照诊断结论，她随时都有可能离开这个世界。为了不惊扰自己最爱的、在大城市当企业培训师且整日忙碌的儿子，并将他从潜在的忧虑中解脱出来，叶莲娜·米哈伊洛夫娜决定亲自处理这件事，她开始积极、忙碌地操办自己的葬礼……充满象征意味的鲤鱼并未冻伤，而是诗意的契约。

影片的主人公是一名二战英雄，战后来到一座西部利亚小城当起了火车司机。真正给他们带来的极大的肉体和心灵的创伤，英雄们于是将火车视为膜拜的对象，疯狂的追求提升火车的速度。人和车似乎已经不分你我。英雄们就在这片西伯利亚丛林中，开始了一场不顾生命安全的火车竞速比赛。

In the bleak filmscape of glasnost, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the Soviet films of the period, it contrasted sharply to the mainstream, which was overwhelmed with revisionism of the Stalinist past and nihilistic social criticism. Made in 1988 by a young Kazakh director, Rashid Nugmanov, fresh out of VGIK (the national film school), The Needle was a pioneering effort in several ways. Having come from a remote, stagnant republic of Kazakhstan, the picture set off a movement that has come to be known as the "Kazakh New Wave." Represented by such works as Alexander Baranov's and Bakhyt Kilibayev's The Three (1988) and Woman of the Day (1990); Kilibayev's The Tick (1990); Baranov's He and She (1990); Abai Karpykov's Little Fish in Love (1989); and Serik Aprymov's The Last Stop (1989), the Kazakh New Wave was for the agonizing Soviet film of the late 1980s what the French New Wave was for the dusty French film of the late 1950s. The Needle was the movement's a bout de souffle. The film also became a model for the Russian version of postmodernism—uninhibited and uninformed, compensating for the lack of culture, skill, and resources with mischief and wit. A young man named Moro (played by Viktor Tsoi, the late rock 'n' roll legend from the St. Petersburg band "Kino") returns to his Asiatic hometown only to find his exgirlfriend, Dina (Marina Smirnova), becoming a drug addict and himself becoming involved in the bizarre life of the city's underworld. In an attempt to save Dina, Moro takes her away to the Aral Sea, turned into a barren desert by the time they arrive. There Dina seems cured, but back in town everything starts anew. Almost desperate, Moro decides to fight the drug dealers, led by a hospital doctor (played by another rock 'n' roll star, eccentric leader of the "Sound of Mu" band and the future star of Taxi Blues, Pyotr Mamonov), when one of them stabs him in a deserted park.

影片的主人公是一名二战英雄，战后来到一座西部利亚小城当起了火车司机。真正给他们带来的极大的肉体和心灵的创伤，英雄们于是将火车视为膜拜的对象，疯狂的追求提升火车的速度。人和车似乎已经不分你我。英雄们就在这片西伯利亚丛林中，开始了一场不顾生命安全的火车竞速比赛。