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Mangashlyk

2018 · 19 min

A quiet, heavy wartime vignette that lingers on a small moral choice and the ache of separation.

Directed by
Lyudmila Lebedeva
Genres
Drama
Starring
Danila Artemenko, Violetta Minulina, Ivan Grigoryev
Overview
1942 year. Pavlodar. Kazakhstan. Far Eastern military echelon. Tanker Stepan hopes to meet his mother. The soldier Litovkin is faced with a difficult choice - to fulfill the order or to skip mother to son.

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Directed by
Lyudmila Lebedeva
Genres
Drama
Starring
Danila Artemenko, Violetta Minulina, Ivan Grigoryev
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 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
  • war
  • family
  • morality
  • grief
  • isolation
Places
  • military
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Lyudmila Lebedeva
Written by
Vladimir Demin
Starring
Danila Artemenko, Violetta Minulina, Ivan Grigoryev, Maxim Prishchenko, Denis Shmigel
Music
Gaydar Sarkynshakov
Cinematography
Natalya Makarova
Runtime
19 min
Country
Kazakhstan, Russia
Languages
Russian

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