Synopsis
The Garage (1979) is a satirical tragicomedy by Eldar Ryazanov you can watch online on iFILM. A late-night meeting of a garage cooperative drags on and on: four members have to be struck off the list, their future garages doomed to make way for a new road.
The vote looks settled — the board arranged everything in advance. Then someone locks the hall and hides the key, and nobody can leave. Across one long night, respectable colleagues trapped among the stuffed animals of a zoology museum reveal exactly what they're made of. They haggle, they inform on each other, they dodge, they strike alliances and break them minutes later.
Ryazanov turns a routine meeting into a sharp parable about a society where the loudest voices for fairness belong to the people with nothing to lose. The director hands himself a tiny cameo as a man who dozes through the entire thing — see if you can spot him. The lines long ago passed into everyday quotation, and the situation hasn't faded in forty-odd years. A cornerstone of Soviet screen comedy. Stream The Garage (1979) online on iFILM.
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