Abstract
This article argues that Aleksei Balabanov's Of Freaks and Men is a postmodern commentary on post-Soviet society, displaying the themes of voyeurism, pornography and perversion within the simulacrum of the Russian fin de siècle. This is substantiated by cultural quotations from Fedor Dostoevskii, degeneration theory and the St Petersburg myth in order to depict the demise of Russian civilized society, which will be saved by the West.
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