| Crazies | |
| Native Name: | ru|Чокнутые |
| Director: | Alla Surikova |
| Producer: | Yuriy Kushneryov |
| Music: | Gennady Gladkov |
| Cinematography: | Valeriy Shuvalov |
| Editing: | Raisa Lisova |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
Crazies (ru|Чокнутые|Choknutye) is a 1991 Soviet tragicomedy film directed by Alla Surikova.[1] [2] [3]
The Russian Empire of the time of Nicholas I. Austrian engineer Otto von Gerstner (his prototype was Franz Anton von Gerstner) is traveling to Russia to implement a project for the construction of the first railway, which should connect Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo. Arriving in Russia, he gathers a team of like-minded people and goes to the goal, despite the problems that constantly stand in his way. The cause of these problems turn out to be the owners of the horse-drawn companies, who, in the fight against a dangerous competitor, as it seems to them, do not even disdain to hire a "coup specialist" in order to ruin von Gerstner and his enterprise. When, it seems, nothing can save the enterprise of the first Russian railway workers from failure, a being sent by higher powers comes to their aid — the guardian angel Masha…