1990s. Gangster Kyiv. A team of four men is assigned to deliver a girl from Prague, nicknamed "Alien", the sister of a recently arrested criminal called Babai, whose testimony could damage some important people.
Acting
Natalia Romanycheva devours every frame like it's her last meal.
Cinematography
Kyiv never looked this cruelly beautiful — concrete, neon, and ash.
Direction
Bormatov treats violence like slow theatre, not spectacle.
Director
Anton Bormatov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in the muddy, lawless post-Soviet 90s Ukraine that Western crime films still can't capture authentically.
Romanycheva was a complete unknown — cast after the director saw her in a theatre production and literally couldn't look away.
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