A university professor, who wants to slow down a little, moves with his wife and daughter, from the big city to a small town and starts a new job as a teacher in a girls' gymnasium. Something weird is happening with the class, they seem to hide a secret. As it turns out, these girls don't play with dolls...
Acting
Darya Balabanova's ice-cold precociousness steals every scene.
Direction
Strizhenov weaponizes small-town claustrophobia brilliantly.
Director
Aleksandr Strizhenov
Marat Basharov
Andrey Belov
Darya Balabanova
Yulenka
Oksana Lavrentyeva
Lera Litvinovich
Anna Kazyuchits
Anna
Irina Kupchenko
Tamara Iosifovna
Sergey Grekov
Sergey Kovalchik
Aleksandr Strizhenov
Detective Borin
Khelga Filippova
Yulia Yalinskaya
Diana Shpak
Marina Shimadina
Pavel Parkhomenko
Artist
Angelina Varganova
Doctor
Aleksandra Strizhenova
Girl
Sergey Gabrielyan
Kirsanov
Tatyana Kosach-Bryndina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of post-Soviet Russian horror examining generational trauma and institutional rot.
The classroom's synchronized behavior deliberately echoes Village of the Damned and The Crucible.
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