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Garden of Scorpions

1991 · 96 min

A grim, disorienting collage that drifts between propaganda and clinic footage, demanding patience and leaving a cold, unsettled residue.

Directed by: Oleg Kovalov
Genres: Drama
Starring: Vadim Grachov, Boris Sitko, Danuta Stolyarskaya

Overview: A mixture of shots form a Soviet propaganda film and a documentary about the clinic for incurable alcoholics.

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Directed by: Oleg Kovalov
Genres: Drama
Starring: Vadim Grachov, Boris Sitko, Danuta Stolyarskaya

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Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: addiction
isolation
death
politics
media
Places: hospital
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	0
Tension	4
Darkness	8
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Oleg Kovalov
Written by: Oleg Kovalov
Starring: Vadim Grachov, Boris Sitko, Danuta Stolyarskaya
Cinematography: Anatoly Lapshov
Runtime: 96 min
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian

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