Mournful Indifference
1987, NR, 100 min.
Directed by Alexander Sokurov, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Alla Osipenko, Irina Sokolova, Tatyana Yegorova, Vladimir Zamansky.

This adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House is an early film by the celebrated Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, who was a protégé of Andrei Tarkovsky. Sokurov uses Shaw’s satirical play to focus on the senselessness of war and the consequences of an individualist ideology. See www.austinfilm.org for more on the series.

This article appears in July 20 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.