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Rita's Last Fairy Tale

2012 · 100 min

A surreal, melancholic drift through a leaking hospital where love and death blur into a strange, uneasy fairy tale.

Directed by
Renata Litvinova
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Starring
Mitya Borisov, Lev Danilkin, Sergey Debizhev
Overview
The film speaks about universal themes of love, hate and search for love. The portrait of three women represents these three states. Tanya Neubivko has never been in love but optimistically is searing for it. Her unfortunate and even dangerous encounters with strangers on dates almost got her killed. Rita is happily engaged and planning a wedding after a routine medical check-up. Nadya is a very unhappy doctor who hates her husband and finds relief in alcohol. The story takes place in a surreal hospital with the leaking roof and hollow walls and constantly smoking doctors, where Rita is destined to die.

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Directed by
Renata Litvinova
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Starring
Mitya Borisov, Lev Danilkin, Sergey Debizhev
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • loneliness
  • death
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • hospital
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour3
Realism4
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, fantasy, mystery
Directed by
Renata Litvinova
Written by
Renata Litvinova
Starring
Mitya Borisov, Lev Danilkin, Sergey Debizhev, Tatyana Drubich, Albina Evtushevskaya, Alisa Khazanova, Nikolay Khomeriki, Olga Kuzina
Music
Zemfira
Cinematography
Alexey Bychkov, Alexey Neretin
Runtime
100 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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