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Like a Man

2022 · 100 min

A slow-building, tense drama about a man's perfect life unraveling after a confrontation, asking you to sit with his moral dilemma.

Directed by
Maksim Kulagin
Genres
Drama
Starring
Anton Lapenko, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Evgeniya Sinitskaya
Overview
Gleb is 35 years old and an example of a successful man: he has a beautiful wife, his own business, and a new country house to dream about. But as he doesn’t find the courage to sort things out like a man with his drunken neighbor who hit his wife, his perfect life changes drastically.

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Directed by
Maksim Kulagin
Genres
Drama
Starring
Anton Lapenko, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Evgeniya Sinitskaya
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • power
  • corruption
  • family
  • morality
Places
  • suburbs
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour2
Realism7
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Maksim Kulagin
Written by
Denis Kulagin
Starring
Anton Lapenko, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Evgeniya Sinitskaya, Volodymyr Gorislavets, Anastasiya Chueva, Polina Sinilnikova, Olga Khokhlova, Sergey Vasin
Cinematography
Dmitry Tskhay
Runtime
100 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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