Summary
No Trust. No Fear. Aak Nothing. On the Myth of the Russian Gangster Chanson
“Blatnyak – this means backyard songs you squeeze out of your soul,” explains Russia’s iconic punk musician Sergey Shnurov. Songs about gangsters, jail, alcohol and drugs; about love, betrayal and death, and above all about the loss of freedom. Songs of ordinary people, reflecting the difficulties of life in the Soviet Union. Sad and desperate, but also loud and anarchical; a testimony both of perseverance and inner emigration.
Peter Rippl’s documentary traces a world that seems to have disappeared with the breakup of the Soviet Union – although, back then, everybody had ardently loved the songs of the ’Blatnoy’, the gangsters and thieves – illegally recorded, copied and traded, they reached the entire country and all social groups. “I tell you a secret,” says rapper and poet Stas Baretzky, “Russians have always lived in shit, und they look for someone who is living in this same shit, plus being a good singer.” No Trust. No Fear. Ask Nothing. is a film about repressed and forgotten creativity, the creativity of common people. It shows how life and identity of present-day Russians are still influenced by the old saying ’Nobody is safe from prison and misery’.
Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH
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