22 minutes to crush your soul. Russians don't do happy endings, darling.
Architect Oleg comes to a provincial town on business where he meets a girl Tania. It’s the case of love at first sight and there seems that a long a happy life awaits them…
Cinematography
Bleak provincial poetry—every frame aches.
Direction
Malyshev wields 22 minutes like a weapon.
Director
Fedor Malyshev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Short film festivals have been quietly radicalizing audiences with this—Russian cinema's obsession with beautiful suffering finds perfect compression here.
Marakhonich reportedly learned provincial dialect from actual townspeople; that authentic exhaustion in her performance? Not acting.
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