Shantytown Blues

Action, Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Svetlana Stasenko

Status Released

Release Date 2004-09-25

Storyline

At the end of the 70s, a boy Mishka, abandoned by his mother and stepfather, lives in a provincial Soviet town. Curious, bold and angry. With his bluntness and fearless naivete, he conquers the local gangster John, and with the help of his patron begins to act in local taverns, finally leaving a dysfunctional family.