A young sailor descends from a local train. He goes to a nearby forest, which is full of strange men in medical uniforms behaving in an absurd and eccentric manner. The sailor falls under their influence and masochistically gives himself up to them only to be disemboweled by the werewolf orderlies. The sailor’s last unconscious image is a “white ship sailing towards the horizon”—a Soviet symbol for happiness and joy.

A military group of alpinists are selected to carry out a secret mission. The fate of humanity depends on their success. The rules of the mission require the death of each participant once his or her task is accomplished. After killing one of their colleagues and splitting into several groups, the alpinists continue their journey. But the human unconscious doesn’t follow military orders. Having once committed murder, the “knights” can’t control their desire to kill. They forgot their mission… and kill each other instead. —University of Pittsburgh

Wooow man this movie had some awesome death scenes in it. They were by far the best I've ever seen, even better than anything like when Jason chops the boy and girl in half through the tent (while they are having sex) with a spear. Even cooler cuz they are suicides! So inspiring I kind of want to do mine that way, yeah. Also, there are some cute pictures of beavers! REALLY cute. THough they could be puppet-beavers.

With regard to this odd and experimental black-and-white Russian film, loosely based on the Alexei Tolstoy short story The Vampire's Family, the director says: "This is a chronicle of the death of Father Frost" (the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus) "or rather an announcement of it. Necrocreativity inspires a special state of feelings, mind and spirit... What is it? The conclusion is not obvious, but here it is -- one wants to think it over -- necrorealism is humanism." In the story, the sharply contrasting lives of two brothers are compared. One of them, a biologist, is a reasonable, scientific and rational man, fascinated by the workings of natural processes. Perhaps he is even a bit too thoughtful. The other is completely given over to his instincts and lives in the country with his wife and child, living directly from his feelings. Moments of violence, horror, and aberrant sexuality (S&M and bondage) are interspersed with images of great spaciousness and beauty and the evocation of dark moods. Some critics compared its visual style to that of the late Andrei Tarkovsky, while it explores a thought territory that is uniquely its own. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. ( )