Three teens, one roof, zero adults paying attention — Russian family dysfunction at its finest.
In the center of events are three teenage girls whose parents are busy solving their problems and almost do not notice what is happening with their children. However, the film is not about children, but about how adults are sometimes inattentive.
Acting
Chernykh's raw, unshowy performance captures teenage numbness perfectly.
Direction
Grachevskiy frames neglect as horror without a single jump scare.
Director
Boris Grachevskiy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Russia's late-2000s 'new sincerity' movement, rejecting Soviet heroism for mundane emotional devastation.
The rooftop itself was an actual condemned building in Perm; crew had one hour daily to shoot before demolition crews arrived.
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