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War in the Western Direction

1990 · 1 season

A grim, slow-burning chronicle of early-war chaos that feels like a history lesson delivered with heavy solemnity.

Genres
War & politics, Drama
Overview
A military epic based on Ivan Stadnyuk's novel of the same name about the tragic events of the first months of the WWII.
How it feels
Bleak, tense, earnest and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
War, survival, death, betrayal
Content
Strong violence. Mild gore and language. No sexual content.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror4
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

Cast

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Details

Genres
war & politics, drama
Created by
Hryhorii Kokhan, Timofei Levchuk
Written by
Eduard Volodarskiy, Hryhorii Kokhan, Ivan Stadnyuk
Starring
Archil Gomiashvili, Andrei Tolubeyev, Vladimir Sichkar, Viktor Uralsky, Viktor Stepanov, Nikolay Zasukhin, Ivan Matskevich, Mikhail Ulyanov
Music
Yevhen Stankovych
Length
1 seasons, 6 episodes
Network
Central Television USSR
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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