Mad Mimes (2012)

Director: Dimitri Venkov

An anthropological study of a cargo cult in a fictitious self-marginalized commune, which existed next to the Moscow Ring Road - a highway that marks the boundaries of the Russian capital - and survived mainly on roadside trash. Although the road provided for their basic needs, the existence of the commune was extremely precarious and highly dependent on the roadway's fluctuations. This dependency led them to develop a cargo cult of the road.

Cast

Daniil Zinchenko

Tribesman

Pavel Grozin

Road worker

Alexander Evangely

Anthropologist

Alexandra Obukhova

Historian of religions

Arseny Zhilyaev

Anthropologist

Oksana Sarkisyan

Sociologist

Mikhail Maximov

Tribesman

Varvara Gevorgizova

Tribeswoman

Tanya Lazareva

Tribeswoman, mother of two

Anton Nikolaev

Pizdariki (Voice)