TV series

Children of the Sun

1985 · 1 season

A slow, somber plunge into a family's unraveling amid revolutionary turmoil, heavy with despair and unspoken longing.

Overview: The family of Russian intellectuals during the first Russian revolution is faced with a "cholera riot". One of the characters commits suicide, another goes mad, the third suffers from unrequited love.
How it feels: Melancholic, dark, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Family, madness, death, love
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
madness
death
love
politics
Places: single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none