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White Clouds

1968 · 68 min

A quiet, sorrowful journey through memory and loss, heavy with historical pain and restrained emotion.

Directed by
Rollan Serhiyenko
Genres
Drama
Starring
Yuriy Dubrovin, Yuriy Nazarov, Laimonas Noreika
Tagline
Sooner or later, everyone makes this journey.
Overview
A man is notified of his father's imminent death. He travels to his father in a remote Ukrainian village, recalling his childhood during the disastrous forced collectivization and artificial famine (Holodomor) of the 1930s by the Soviet regime. The film was heavily cut due to censorship by the Soviet Government.

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Directed by
Rollan Serhiyenko
Genres
Drama
Starring
Yuriy Dubrovin, Yuriy Nazarov, Laimonas Noreika
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • memory
  • family
  • survival
  • trauma
Places
  • countryside
  • road trip
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Rollan Serhiyenko
Written by
Oleksandr Syzonenko
Starring
Yuriy Dubrovin, Yuriy Nazarov, Laimonas Noreika, Vladimir Alekseyenko, Vladimir Volkov, Konstantin Donets, Mykola Oliinyk, Zoya Nedbay
Music
Valentin Silvestrov
Cinematography
Vitaliy Zymovets
Runtime
68 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian, Ukrainian

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