Engineering Red

Engineering Red (Russian: Конструктор красного цвета) is a Russian surrealist film directed by Andrey Yi and animator Armen Petrosyan.^[1]

The script is based on Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain (1924) and idea of creating artificial people in the Soviet Union (in the 1940-1950s).

Plot[]

The film is divided into three chapters and has two storylines – documentary and fiction.

The documentary part consists of natural footage of operations on transplanting toes onto a human hand; moments from the life of conjoined twins; clippings, almost definitely a propaganda film for doctors on the use of cadaveric blood in practical medicine, and so on.

The fiction part consists of psychedelic scenes: a red room, a girl in red silk, kaleidoscopic images. A female voice-over reads an excerpt from The Magic Mountain, in which the thoughts of a deceased soldier are heard (his consciousness is still in a dead body). Sounding his reflections on Christ, the Apostles and the Bible. The soldier's body then falls prey to necrophilic children.

History of creation[]

The idea for the film was crazy. But that was exactly what had to be done in those years. And I achieved my goal: two or three people really vomited while watching. This effect was worth it: the film was shown at the Moscow festival along with the films of world-class masters.

— Andrey Yi. Film director, ^[2]

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