Visitors Of a Museum / Посетительмузея

The third Cinema lecture with a following discussion (in english language) on the „critique of capitalism and the state in the Soviet dystopia 80-XX“

Movie: Visitors Of a Museum / Посетительмузея, 1989
Country: Soviet Union-switzerland-Germany.
Directed by Konstantin Loupshansky

Civilization as we know it has been destroyed, but remnants remain. In this story, a man has set his heart on visiting a famous pre-apocalypse museum which is now isolated in the midst of a new sea, the result of the melting of the polar icecaps. Those who hold onto the remnants of the old civilization live in isolated settlements, and keep a tight rein on the more numerous mutants, whom they keep in concentration camps (except for those who pressed into duty as servants). The stranger, who is an odd looking man, is taken by these mutants as a long-awaited messiah, and he swiftly becomes involved in the mutant-liberation rebellion, leading his followers to a new land on the other side of the sea.