A 23-minute Russian romance where the real monster is commitment issues.
19-year-old Lenya and 40-year-old sewer worker Lyuda find themselves in a dark park, where a lantern illuminates not only the ping-pong table, but also their strange, non-committal meeting.
Cinematography
That single lantern creating maximum mood with minimum budget.
Acting
Voronov and Morshankina sell decades of unspoken baggage in glances.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like two strangers testing boundaries.
Director
Sergey Pavlov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian indie shorts like this exploded post-2022 as state-funded cinema collapsed, letting weird little films breathe.
The title 'My Sweet Manhole' is deliberately absurd—Pavlov wanted to reclaim sewer imagery from metaphorical filth.
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