Synopsis
The siren screams, female workers stream to the factory door, the second hand of the clock moves unerringly towards 7:00:00. The gate is closed. It is not in inside. So hot that condensation from the steaming bodies collects on the walls and ceiling, dripping back down. Elena is greeted with news that she?l be getting an apartment with a kitchen and a mattress after so many years of waiting. She?l finally be able to look at the apartment after the midday break. Elena can? wait to see her new home and during her lunch break she arrives at her new home. Suddenly plagued with hunger pains, Elena meets her new neighbors in her search for some bread : the man with the glass, the old woman with the hat, a young pianist. Soon Elena gets involved in a seance in which not only ghosts are summoned as well as a number of house pet who met an untimely end. She also comes to learn the Wagner is not only name of the hydraulic press she opertes at the factory but is also the name of a German composer. Andrej Slabakoff brilliantly satirizes the repressed human condition as well as Chrisitianity, socialist aesthetics and government bureaucracy. (Zeong Chosin)