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2016 · 14 min

A short, quietly grim bureaucratic standoff that turns paperwork into a meditation on what a life is worth.

Directed by
Vadim Valiullin
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Polina Smykovskaya, Artem Aysin, Anastasiya Rechister
Overview
At the heart of the plot lies a conflict between a young woman and a bank employee over some hidden clauses in a mortgage deal. The 25-year old young woman is married and works as manager; she is paying off a long-term mortgage. One day she finds out that she has an incurable disease and that her husband, an airline steward, has perished in an air crash. The insurance sum is sufficient to cover the mortgage in one lump sum... An allusion to people trading the best years of their life for an apartment, only in this case the trade is literally between an apartment and life.

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Directed by
Vadim Valiullin
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Polina Smykovskaya, Artem Aysin, Anastasiya Rechister
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    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • class
    • death
    • grief
    • power
    • work
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
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    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    comedy
    Directed by
    Vadim Valiullin
    Written by
    Vadim Valiullin
    Starring
    Polina Smykovskaya, Artem Aysin, Anastasiya Rechister, Nikolay Rikhter, Alina Nigmatullina, Anton Boldyrev, Arslan Sitdikov, Rishat Valiev
    Cinematography
    Artem Aysin, Vadim Valiullin
    Runtime
    14 min
    Country
    Russia
    Languages
    Russian

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