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The Ugly Swans

2006 · 109 min

A cold, grey, meditative trudge through damp ruins and hushed rooms, more oppressive atmosphere than story, rewarding patience with a lingering sense of dread.

Overview
In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate the goings-on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. His tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • identity
  • fate
  • family
  • power
Places
  • small town
  • school
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour1
Realism5
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
science fiction, drama
Directed by
Konstantin Lopushansky
Written by
Vyacheslav Rybakov, Konstantin Lopushansky
Starring
Gregory Hlady, Aleksey Kortnev, Leonid Mozgovoy, Rimma Sarkisyan, Olga Samoshina, Aleksandr Tsybulsky, Vasily Mikhailov, Viktor Mikhaylov
Cinematography
Vladislav Gurtchin
Runtime
109 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian, German, French, Polish

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