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Cat Killer Silver

1989 · 79 min

A slow, dreamlike plunge into a disturbed mind, surreal and quietly sad, asking patience as it drifts between squalid reality and strange inner refuge.

Directed by
Yuri Yelkhov
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Starring
Juozas Budraitis, Svetlana Panfilova, Vladimir Tolokonnikov
Overview
A patient in a psychiatric ward believes he lives in the belly of a whale, where he's transported himself to escape from the vulgarity and haste of the modern world.

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Directed by
Yuri Yelkhov
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Starring
Juozas Budraitis, Svetlana Panfilova, Vladimir Tolokonnikov
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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
    None
    Places
    • hospital
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • unreliable narrator
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror3
    Humour3
    Realism3
    Romance1
    Tension4
    Darkness6
    Complexity8
    Emotional weight7

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    Genres
    drama, fantasy
    Directed by
    Yuri Yelkhov
    Written by
    Yuri Yelkhov
    Starring
    Juozas Budraitis, Svetlana Panfilova, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Aleksey Zaytsev, Svetlana Smirnova, Roman Podolyaka, Tatyana Kharanovich
    Runtime
    79 min
    Country
    Soviet Union
    Languages
    Russian

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