A naturalistic road movie occurring on the dark side of our reality
One day in the life of Gleb, Vlad, and Gosha, young employees of the sales department of a wholesale company. From morning to evening - a war with clients and the boss. And after work, the guys go out for a beer. And from that moment on, their somewhere dangerous, somewhere disgusting in its naturalism journey through the night Saint-Petersburg begins. "Three Comrades" is an immersion into the ruthless world of modern reality. Immorality, hopelessness, and meaninglessness of existence differentiate the young heroes of the film. They seem to have descended from the pages of Vladimir Kozlov’s, a native of Mogilev, who has long lived in Moscow, prose: lapidary and ruthless to the characters, and to reality, and to the feelings of the reader. As in his previous films, the author demonstrates brutal fragments from the life of young people who at some point face the problem of moral choice. Overwhelmed by unexpected pseudo-freedom, the heroes of the film, turn into criminals without realizing it. Like with his previous works, Vladimir Kozlov shot “Three Comrades” using micro-budget funds, which, surprisingly, does not interfere with the artistic effect of the film, but, on the contrary, helps. The road movie in the insides of the northern capital of Russia was filmed in a very naturalistic, almost documentary manner. The world-famous architectural beauties of St. Petersburg are not even closely represented in this movie, the external and essential aspects of the film coincide. Sometimes a certain lightness and simplicity of the play of non-professional performers feel a little amateurish, and the technical level seems too simple, which, however, adds a bit of naturalism to the tape and distinguishes it for the better from films with a much larger budget and less meaning.