RCB Film Club to screen Russian musical comedy on 28 November –

River City Bangkok Film Club’s next film is Stilyagi (“Hipsters”), Russia, which will be screened on Saturday, 28 November, at 4:00 pm. A cult musical and romantic comedy, centring around a youth movement in the Soviet Union of the 1950s, the film bagged many awards and won over audiences around the world.

At the height of the Cold War in the Soviet Union, the titular “Stilyagi” were a bunch of Western-oriented hipsters who loved jazz, dances like the Swing and Boogie-woogie, exhibited questionable morals, and enjoyed dressing with flamboyant style. They even called the main street they used “Broadway”. Of course the conservative Communists did not approve of them.

The film is a lively and rollicking comedy that takes the viewer on an epic joy ride through 1955 Moscow, two years after Stalin’s death.

One of the highlights…