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For No Apparent Reason

1982

A slow, somber Soviet-era mystery that draws you into a bleak provincial world of suspicion and quiet dread.

Directed by
Yevgeni Tatarsky
Genres
Mystery, Crime
Starring
Ernst Romanov, Irina Alfyorova, Lev Prygunov
Overview
1921. Three seemingly unrelated terrible events took place in a provincial Siberian town. But Chekist Kamchatov is convinced that there are links between the murders and, moreover, that in the last case, the suicide of a young security guard was, in his opinion, clearly staged...

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Directed by
Yevgeni Tatarsky
Genres
Mystery, Crime
Starring
Ernst Romanov, Irina Alfyorova, Lev Prygunov
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • deception
  • death
  • isolation
  • justice
Places
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
mystery, crime
Directed by
Yevgeni Tatarsky
Written by
Sergei Aleksandrov
Starring
Ernst Romanov, Irina Alfyorova, Lev Prygunov, Mikhail Kononov, Igor Dmitriev, Georgiy Shtil, Georgiy Drozd, Yevgeni Kindinov
Music
Nadezhda Simonyan
Cinematography
Konstantin Ryzhov
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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