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VICE GUIDE TO FILM RUSSIA - THIS WEEK ON IFC CANADA

In this week's episode of The Vice Guide to Film airing on IFC Canada, Shane Smith learns more about this bizarre and wonderful school of film-making and travels to Moscow to interview the motley cast of characters that founded Russian Parallel Cinema.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, and the threat of being kidnapped and disappeared by the KGB diminished, Russian filmmakers released six decades of pent-up creative energy. The films that emerged were an insane mish mash of booze, violence, surrealism, and insanity. Thus Parallel Cinema was born. In this week's episode of The Vice Guide to Film airing on IFC Canada, Shane Smith learns more about this bizarre and wonderful school of film-making and travels to Moscow to interview the motley cast of characters that founded Russian Parallel Cinema. We meet Gleb and Igor Aleinikov, two of Parallel Cinema's most prolific creators; Oleg Kulik, who spent a year as a dog; Andre Silvestrov and Pavel Liabazov, founders of Alcho-Cinema; and notorious "Necro-Realist" Yevgeni Yufit who casts Shane in a scene which, if you ask us, is one of the most ridonkulous moments of the entire series. Again, that's happening this Friday August 13, 9pm EST on IFC Canada.