In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.
Cinematography
Stunning decaying brutalist architecture as character
Acting
Sukhanov's pathetic desperate billionaire
Direction
Zeldovich's unapologetic 161-minute commitment
Director
Aleksandr Zeldovich
Maksim Sukhanov
Victor
Justine Waddell
Zoe
Danila Kozlovsky
Mitya
Daniela Stojanović
Anna
Nina Loshchinina
Taya
Aleksandra Bogdanova
Olya
Vitaly Kishchenko
Nikolay
Sergey Potapov
bum
Anton Khabarov
Andrey
Oleg Yagodin
Taya's groom
Julia Melnikova
Natalya Batrak
the inn' owner
Alyona Pol'kina
Inga
Igor Serebryanyy
leader of homeless men
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zeldovich adapts a short story by the Strugatsky brothers, Soviet sci-fi legends who also wrote 'Roadside Picnic' (source material for Tarkovsky's 'Stalker').
The astrophysics complex was filmed at real abandoned Soviet facilities, including the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Dubna—no set dressing required for that authentic post-collapse decay.
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