"On Sasha and Jaromir! On Nikolas!"
"But sir, you are Nikolas."
"Yes, yes, everyone must work. Everyone!"
A clever history lesson with a few basics in Russian culture disguised as a christmas spoof that details all the humiliation, reindeerification and reeducation of the North Pole elves that get swept up in a revolution. A central UN cocktail bash including Khrushchev, a distraught and macho Kennedy, De Gaulle and the whole gang likely comes very close to reality.
Bereket's spoof of the Soviet Union portrays its historic pros and cons, but never backs down from its critique of gringo crass capitalist consumerism. Portraying the Cold War's liquor-shooting belligerents for the petty, broken old men that they all were, Bereket throws his elves from the gears of one incomprehensible machine into another. The wacky buddy-cop ride of the Red Elf and the agitator Sokolov in the middle act has some important lessons for those paying attention.
The narration is a little baggy for me, could've used a second edit, but the dialogue has some inspired moments. ( )