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Mama — Saint Sebastian

2016 · 27 min

A quiet, suffocating plunge into grief and identity, where every revelation lands like a slow, heavy blow.

Directed by
Alexander Terentyev
Genres
Drama
Starring
Anatoliy Goryachev, Svetlana Kireeva, Sergey Yushkevich
Overview
Mother is eighty, Seva - sixty.That's the whole family right there. Seva spent his life looking after his mother. While he was at her beck and call, he barely had any time for himself and ended up childless with no soul to turn to. The inevitable happens - mother dies. Without her life loses its meaning. On top of this he finds out the story about his birth. The unbearable truth turns his life upside-down. Questions keep piling on. How to forgive? How to find humility and the strength to carry on?

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Directed by
Alexander Terentyev
Genres
Drama
Starring
Anatoliy Goryachev, Svetlana Kireeva, Sergey Yushkevich
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • identity
  • family
  • isolation
  • guilt
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Alexander Terentyev
Written by
Juja Dobrachkous, Alexander Terentyev
Starring
Anatoliy Goryachev, Svetlana Kireeva, Sergey Yushkevich, Antonina Vvedenskaya, Yuriy Loparyov, Anatoly Khropov, Aleksandr Bolshakov
Cinematography
Artem Tarasenkov
Runtime
27 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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