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The Swamp

2021 · 1 season

A slow, unsettling drift into uncertainty, where escape curdles into dread and reality keeps slipping.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Faced with insurmountable problems, five young Muscovites flee to a monastery near the half-abandoned village of Topi. They view the trip as an adventure, a long-awaited freedom from worries, and an opportunity to forget. However, the journey turns into a series of mysterious events that only brings closer what they fled from and make them doubt the reality of what's happening.

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 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
  • isolation
  • mystery
  • trauma
  • identity
  • survival
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror5
Humour2
Realism6
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Created by
Dmitry Glukhovsky, Vladimir Mirzoev
Written by
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Starring
Ivan Yankovsky, Tikhon Zhiznevsky, Anastasia Krylova, Sofia Volodchinskaya, Katerina Shpitsa, Maksim Sukhanov, Marina Vasilyeva, Veronika Mokhireva
Music
Ryan Otter
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes, 59 min each
Network
Kinopoisk
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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