Johann darkly handsome and manipulative is a turn of the 20th Century St Petersburg pornographer peddling images of bare-bottomed floggings. He and his snaggle-toothed assistant Victor worm their way into the lives of two wealthy families manipulating adopted Siamese twins Kolja and Tolja and the delicately beautiful Lisa as subjects for his erotic films. Filmed in sepia tone 'Of Freaks and Men' is visually rich with a crackling eerie soundtrack. It lays bare a preoccupation
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In early twentieth century St Petersburg, pornographer Johann (Sergei Makovetskii) makes money selling photographs of blindfolded young women being spanked. His customers include Liza (Dinara Drukarova), daughter of engineer Radlov, who employs Johann's sister as his maid. Johann is also interested in twin sisters Kolia and Tolia, daughters of Dr Stasov and his blind wife Ekaterina Kirillovna. Although both Radlove and Dr Stasov resent Johann's intrusion into their daughters' lives, he connives to involve the women in his work, seeking to wed Liza while simultaneously planning to use Kolia and Tolia in pornographic films.
Acclaimed Russian director Alexei Balabanov (THE BROTHER) is the brains behind this award-winning film about the dark side of the late Victorian upper classes. Dark and subversive, OF FREAKS AND MEN is the story of a seedy man named Johann and his equally sinister assistant, who together take pictures of half-naked women being flogged. After sneaking their way into the homes of the wealthy, they shrewdly managed to engage their victims in some pornographic situations. Black comedy at its bravest, OF FREAKS AND MEN is a ground-breaking Russian film.
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