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If It Happens to You

1973 · 65 min

A gentle, earnest children's adventure that turns sobering as play gives way to the danger and confusion of wartime.

Directed by
Igor Nikolaev
Genres
Family
Starring
Sergey Obrazov, Katya Malinina, Seryozha Komolov
Overview
Four kids find a WWII battle tank on one of the historic battle sites. They start playing and - find themselves back in the time of war in the middle of a battle.

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Directed by
Igor Nikolaev
Genres
Family
Starring
Sergey Obrazov, Katya Malinina, Seryozha Komolov
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • coming-of-age
  • friendship
  • survival
  • memory
Places
  • countryside
  • military
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour2
Realism6
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Genres
family
Directed by
Igor Nikolaev
Written by
Vyacheslav Naumov
Starring
Sergey Obrazov, Katya Malinina, Seryozha Komolov, Volodya Tsvetkov, Vladlen Paulus
Cinematography
Aleksey Chardynin
Runtime
65 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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