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Petrov's Flu

2021 · 145 min

A boozy, feverish plunge into post-Soviet life where reality keeps slipping into hallucination and dark comedy.

Directed by: Kirill Serebrennikov
Genres: Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Starring: Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov

Overview: With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be extraordinary.

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Directed by: Kirill Serebrennikov
Genres: Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Starring: Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
isolation
family
memory
madness
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	4
Humour	5
Realism	4
Romance	3
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, science fiction, comedy
Directed by: Kirill Serebrennikov
Written by: Kirill Serebrennikov
Starring: Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Aleksandr Ilyin Jr, Nikolay Kolyada, Yura Borisov, Yulia Peresild
Music: Aydar Salakhov
Cinematography: Vladislav Opelyants
Runtime: 145 min
Country: France, Germany, Russia, Switzerland
Languages: English, Russian

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