Zerograd (Blu-ray) Caroline Pierce 'The People's Joker' is a

'The People's Joker' is a deeply personal journey that's as much documentary as it is parody

plus contributions from Ira Cohen

dissects and appraises Nick's life

Herman Wallner

in the early war years

Zerograd (Blu-ray) Caroline Pierce 'The People's Joker' is aA black comic fantasy sci fi satire of the fall of Communism from director Karen Shakhnazarov. ZEROGRAD (ZERO CITY). Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, director Karen Shakhnazarov's surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. He's quickly drawn into the investigation of the suicide (or possibly