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Engineering Red () is a 1993 Russian surrealism part-documentary film/part-narrative film by Andrey Yi and animator Armen Petrosyan.
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).
The fictional part of the film 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 Necrophelia children.
The documentary part tells about medicine, like pig heart transplant, cadaveric blood transfusion, story of conjoined twins etc.
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