The “Cool Movies that Nobody Else But You’ve Heard of” thread in IMHO triggered a memory of a movie that I can’t remember the title of now.
This is what I know:
It was Russian (in Russian) and probably produced post 1990; I think I remember specific references to the struggle to develop after communism. There were three (I think) main characters, all men, who are trying to get inside some sort of abandoned military(?)structure. They don’t know what’s inside it, or maybe they think there’s money/guns/something they can sell for food in there, but it’s not clear. The security system is also rather elaborate and potentially deadly, If I remember rightly.
It was a fairly long movie and the overall tone was pretty dark; scenes of cold and misty trees, dank and rusting metal rooms. For some reason I think it was directed by someone who had made a well-known film about a Russian artist or something like that, but I don’t know that for sure. For all I know the box might simply have been comparing him to that director and mentioned his name.
I’ve done a search for all Russian films post 1990 on the IMDB (387 of them), but none of the titles ring a bell.