16 minutes of Soviet dread: a Polaroid that predicts murder.
A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on Stephen King's novella "The Sun Dog" and Julio Cortázar's short story "Blow-Up" ("Las babas del diablo").
Cinematography
Grainy black-and-white that weaponizes cheap Polaroid texture.
Direction
Zvezdakov stretches 16 minutes into infinite dread.
Director
Yevgeni Zvezdakov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of King's 'Dollar Baby' program letting students adapt his work for $1 — this one's a hidden gem.
Cortázar's 'Blow-Up' also questions photography's truth; Zvezdakov merges both influences into uniquely post-Soviet paranoia about broken systems.
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