Russia's chillest cop investigates a mom who killed her kid. Something's VERY wrong here.
Olga Nikolayevna kills her little son Kolya and then herself. Andrey, the most laid-back and friendly cop in Russia, gets on the case.
Acting
Zuev's absurdly chill cop in hellish circumstances
Direction
Mkrtchyan's Soviet decay aesthetic
Director
Albert Mkrtchyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Soviet collapse, the film channels national anxiety through folk horror tropes rarely seen in Russian cinema.
Director Albert Mkrtchyan primarily made comedies; this was his darkest pivot, reportedly inspired by real unsolved cases.
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