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Reed

2012 · 20 min

A quiet, mournful documentary-like glimpse of a fading place, slow and sparse, asking patience as it lingers on sadness and stillness.

Directed by
Ruslan Batytskyi
Genres
Drama
Starring
Volodymyr Yamnenko, Anastasiya Stelmakh, Valeriya Chaykovska
Overview
A tale of changeless and sad pictures of village’s last days of life, told through prism of a real story.

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Directed by
Ruslan Batytskyi
Genres
Drama
Starring
Volodymyr Yamnenko, Anastasiya Stelmakh, Valeriya Chaykovska
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • death
    • aging
    Places
    • countryside
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour0
    Realism8
    Romance0
    Tension2
    Darkness6
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Ruslan Batytskyi
    Written by
    Ruslan Batytskyi
    Starring
    Volodymyr Yamnenko, Anastasiya Stelmakh, Valeriya Chaykovska, Vasyl Basha, Andriy Kolesnyk
    Cinematography
    Ruslan Batytskyi
    Runtime
    20 min
    Country
    Ukraine
    Languages
    Ukrainian

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