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Gobo the Elephant

2001 · 17 min

A strange, grimly comic short that plays like a feverish police procedural gone wrong.

Directed by
Andrey Kagadeev, Nikolai Kopeykin
Genres
Thriller
Starring
Sergey Kagadeev, Yuriy Saltykov, Andrey Kagadeev
Overview
A mystical detective about the everyday life of Moscow police chasing a bloodthirsty killer elephant. Gobo, offended by fate, walks around Moscow apartments and crushes innocent citizens. Petrovka 38 has a difficult task to catch the criminal, because this is already the thirty-ninety-thousandth case in a week!

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Directed by
Andrey Kagadeev, Nikolai Kopeykin
Genres
Thriller
Starring
Sergey Kagadeev, Yuriy Saltykov, Andrey Kagadeev
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Tone
    Pacing
    brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • crime
    • violence
    • obsession
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language mild
    • Violence strong
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action4
    Horror4
    Humour2
    Realism3
    Romance0
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight3

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    Details

    Genres
    thriller
    Directed by
    Andrey Kagadeev, Nikolai Kopeykin
    Starring
    Sergey Kagadeev, Yuriy Saltykov, Andrey Kagadeev, Alexander Liver, Gleb Orlov, S. Pigach, O. Aristova, D. Larionov
    Runtime
    17 min
    Country
    Russia
    Languages
    Russian

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