Лето в Бадене

A quiet, heavy plunge into a man's unraveling, where intellectual pride gives way to raw loss and the slow, painful work of starting over.

Directed by

Anton Zhelnov

Genres

Drama

Starring

Filipp Yankovsky, Mariya Smolnikova, Aleksandra Mareeva

Overview

A Soviet intellectual is engaged in science and medicine, writing for himself. His only son decides to leave the country forever, breaking his heart and ruining his career and social standing. Having lost everything, he decides to write a novel about Dostoevsky, the subject he's been dreaming about his whole life. Like his beloved writer, he must lose completely in order to be reborn.

How it feels

Melancholic, dark, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Family, betrayal, identity, grief

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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