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The Barrier of Uncertainty

1961 · 108 min

A slow-burning, earnest Soviet drama about test pilots and scientists grappling with a mysterious and dangerous phenomenon, tense but ultimately hopeful.

Directed by: Nikita Kurikhin
Genres: Drama, Science fiction
Starring: Vyacheslav Shalevich, Nikolai Gritsenko, Aleksandr Grave

Overview: The beautiful woman and the brave man disembark the train at the tiny station in the desert. He is the test pilot of the hypersonic nuclear-powered plane called Cyclone, and she is the physicist studying the strange phenomenon encountered by the first flier of the Cyclone jet, named Kazantsev.

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Directed by: Nikita Kurikhin
Genres: Drama, Science fiction
Starring: Vyacheslav Shalevich, Nikolai Gritsenko, Aleksandr Grave

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: technology
survival
science
work
fate
Places: wilderness
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama, science fiction
Directed by: Nikita Kurikhin
Written by: Mikhail Arlazorov, Dmitriy Radovskiy, Boris Chirskov
Starring: Vyacheslav Shalevich, Nikolai Gritsenko, Aleksandr Grave, Vasiliy Makarov, Fyodor Nikitin, Valentina Kibardina, Vladimir Maryev, Vasiliy Maksimov
Music: Mieczysław Weinberg
Cinematography: Samuil Rubashkin
Runtime: 108 min
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian

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