The 17-year-old Savva is getting ready to enrol at university. His parents go on vacation, conferring the responsibility for preparing the entrance exams onto the son. Savva finds a foreign literature teacher on the Internet site “Your Tutor”.
Acting
Vdovina's predatory warmth keeps you guessing.
Direction
Kolomeets traps you in humid, claustrophobic spaces.
Director
Anton Kolomeets
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of post-Soviet cinema exploring generational isolation and the collapse of traditional family structures.
The 85-minute runtime was deliberate—Kolomeets wanted the compression of a short story, not novelistic sprawl.
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