Mother-in-law from hell meets literal explosive tension in 12 brutal minutes.
Timothy’s bride finds herself on a landmine. Now only his mum can help, a combat engineer, who does not quite approve of her son’s choice.
Direction
Vlasov stretches 12 minutes into pure agony. No wasted frame.
Acting
Kamynina's side-eye could defuse bombs—or start wars.
Director
Nikita Vlasov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of post-2014 Russian shorts using genre tension to explore societal fracture—landmines as metaphor for Soviet-era emotional damage.
The 12-minute runtime mirrors real bomb disposal protocol windows; Vlasov consulted actual combat engineers who confirmed the mum's technique is horrifyingly accurate.
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