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Back to Life

1972 · 161 min

A sombre, slow-moving Soviet drama of return and reckoning, heavy with loss and quiet menace.

Directed by
Vladimir Basov
Genres
Drama, Crime
Overview
Everything is behind him: fleeing from Nazi-occupied Estonia to Germany, searching for work in foreign cities, and his own crimes.... Everything is realized and decided - it is necessary to return. But when he returned, he found neither home nor relatives. His father's friend, the leader of a gang of nationalists, told him about his difficult past. Joining his gang, the hero decides to take revenge ...

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Directed by
Vladimir Basov
Genres
Drama, Crime
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • betrayal
  • isolation
  • guilt
  • crime
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, crime
Directed by
Vladimir Basov
Written by
Maro Yerzinkyan, Vladimir Basov
Starring
Leonhard Merzin, Valentina Titova, Paul Rinne, Tamara Loginova, Maria Pastukhova, Vladimir Basov, Vladimir Marenkov, Nina Agapova
Music
Venyamin Basner
Cinematography
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Runtime
161 min
Country
Soviet Union, East Germany
Languages
Russian

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