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Born in the USSR: 35 Up

2026 · 302 min

A long, patient look at ordinary lives unfolding across decades, quietly moving as people reckon with who they became.

Directed by
Sergey Miroshnichenko
Genres
Documentary
Overview
The documentary series "Born in the USSR" is a unique chronology which began in 1989 and has continued for more than 30 years. The authors follow 20 children from different Republics of the former Soviet Union revisiting their life stories every seven years. The new film focuses on the age of 35 years, the time of adulthood and re-evaluation when a man finds himself at the "midpoint" of his life. This is a series about the coming of age of a generation, the search for oneself, about the human being undergoing changes in the changing world.

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Directed by
Sergey Miroshnichenko
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 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
  • coming-of-age
  • memory
  • aging
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism10
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
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Directed by
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Cinematography
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Runtime
302 min
Country
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Languages
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