Daddy, Santa Claus is dead (Yevgeny Yufit, 1991) VHSrip

[helge79]

Daddy,.Santa.Claus.is.dead.(Yevgeny.Yufit,.1991).(Papa,.umer.Ded.Moroz).VHSrip.avi

OK, I've bumped into this file on the Internet, and I thought some people here may be interested. I am personally not too fond of Yufit, even though I liked this one much better than The Wooden Room.

The VHSrip is of a reasonable quality. Russian without subs. There are only a few spoken lines in the movie. Moreover, if someone is so much into this as to make an SRT file with the timings for those few lines, I promise to type in the English translations for you. However, be forewarned that the dialog there is meant to spice up the overbearing absurdity rather than to relieve it...

Please be patient with the download...

A biologist obsessed with writing a treatise on a new kind of mouse becomes witness to a number of bizarre events, from his nephew's suicide, to the S&M engaged in by respectable middle-aged men, to the psychic morbidity of his relatives.

With regard to this odd and experimental black-and-white Russian film, loosely based on the Alexei Tolstoy short story The Vampire's Family, the director says: "This is a chronicle of the death of Father Frost" (the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus) "or rather an announcement of it. Necrocreativity inspires a special state of feelings, mind and spirit... What is it? The conclusion is not obvious, but here it is -- one wants to think it over -- necrorealism is humanism." In the story, the sharply contrasting lives of two brothers are compared. One of them, a biologist, is a reasonable, scientific and rational man, fascinated by the workings of natural processes. Perhaps he is even a bit too thoughtful. The other is completely given over to his instincts and lives in the country with his wife and child, living directly from his feelings. Moments of violence, horror, and aberrant sexuality (S&M and bondage) are interspersed with images of great spaciousness and beauty and the evocation of dark moods. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

[lapsus]

Fantastic!

Ví su última película (Bipedalism) en el último Sitges, y tenía puntos muy buenos (y aunque no acababa de cuajar me quedé con ganas de ver más de este buen hombre).

Thanks !

[auess]

8O 8O 8O
YUFIT!!! THANKS A LOT, helge79, this is a very interesting stuff indeed!

[trep]

Thanks Helge

You're a mistery man... from snippets from messagse here and there you seems to be a philosophically inclined russian physicist well-versed in oriental languages living in L.A. A russian-born spy in the US nuclear program for North Korea, maybe!

[helge79]

You're a mistery man... from snippets from messagse here and there you seems to be a philosophically inclined russian physicist well-versed in oriental languages living in L.A.

Well, Trep, what can I say? I *am* a Russian (well, Russian/Jewish) physicist (perhaps even philosophically inclined) somewhat versed in the oriental languages (well, Chinese, really...) and currently living in LA (though probably not for much longer). I guess the only piece of mystery left at this point must be my Old Norse screenname...

[trep]

Wow, I got everything right! 8O And I never liked playing Cluedo

Well, that's a quite fascinating mix, good to have you around Helge

Edit: I hope "79" is not the year you were born in. That would make me feel *really* old .

[vespertilum]

Clicked, thanks helge79

[seiyuro_hiko]

Después de tres peliculas vistas hasta la fecha ( Bipedalims, the wooden room y esta misma ) me quedo con "daddy, Santa claus is dead" ... y eso, tras haber disfrutado plenamente todas ellas ya que Yevgeny Yufit me parece uno de los valores rusos mas salientables de los aparecidos ultimamente por estos lares junto a Sokurov y Bartas ( ya se que su pasaporte pone otra cosa ^^ ) ...

Y es que, al igual que los ultimos dos autores mencionados, en cada uno de sus films se palpa su marcada y personal atmosfera que siempre te acaba dejando con ganas de mas hasta que recibes el "hachazo" en forma de "fin" .

En mi humilde opinión, uno de los directores contemporaneos a (per)seguir, y que tras la triple ingesta me ha animado aun mas a ir a por "silver heads" ( en ruso y sin subs, que ya estamos acostumbrados ) sin ninguna duda ansioso por disfutar una vez mas del sello yufit .