Zlnky Boys Go Underground
The Zinky Boys were the lucky ones: they were the Russian soldiers who came back from the Afghanistan front in zinc coffins. But for the rest - the wounded and the crazy - life after wartime lurches from horror to gruesome comedy.
Shot on location in the St
Petersburg underground,
AdisakdiTantimedh's story follows a gangof battle-scarred veterans who eke a living out of the black market, dodging a corrupt police force and dreaming of a new life away from Russia.
Zinky Boys Go Underground is part of a trilogy of Continental Drift films focusing on our
European neighbours. In Russian dialogue with English subtitles.
Producer Tatiana Kennedy
Director Paul Tickell
Followed by Video Nation