A veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind.
Acting
Chadov twins' eerie chemistry as living and dead.
Direction
Veledinsky's limbo between gritty realism and fever dream.
Director
Alexandr Veledinsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Russia's Second Chechen War, the film was barely distributed domestically—too raw for official narratives about veteran 'heroism.'
The Chadov brothers had never acted together before; their real-life sibling dynamic was allegedly so intense that crew members couldn't tell them apart on set.
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