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What Is to Be Done?

1971 · 156 min

A long, earnest Soviet literary adaptation that unfolds patiently, asking you to sit with its ideas about independence and society rather than its drama.

Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Overview
TV adaptation of Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel about Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and arranged marriage to seek economic independence.
How it feels
Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Freedom, gender, class, identity
Content
Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    Places
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance4
    Tension3
    Darkness4
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight6

    Cast

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, tv movie
    Directed by
    Nadezhda Marusalova, Pavel Reznikov
    Written by
    Isai Kuznetsov
    Starring
    Aleksandr Lazarev, Yola Sanko, Leonid Bronevoy, Galina Yatskina, Nikolai Volkov Jr., Sergei Desnitsky, Antonina Dmitrieva, Lev Durov
    Runtime
    156 min
    Country
    Soviet Union
    Languages
    Russian

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