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Bipedalism

2005 · 90 min

A strange, drifting descent into obsession and pseudo-science, blurring archive footage and fiction until you lose your footing.

Directed by: Evgeny Yufit
Genres: Drama, Science fiction
Starring: Aleksandr Anikeyenko, Sergei Chernov, Stanislav Ilyukhin

Overview: The main character is crazy about about depicting various anomalies in art. Accidentally he finds a cinematography archive which makes him advance a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal. Yufit proceeds with the plot by describing a scientist struggling against the epidemic wave of anomalies in the physical and mental world thematically started in his other films. This time the struggle takes place on the background of paleoanthropology, psychoanalysis and modern art. As materials of the Museum of Anthropology and other archives are included in the film, it oversteps the boundary between a feature film and documentary.

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Directed by: Evgeny Yufit
Genres: Drama, Science fiction
Starring: Aleksandr Anikeyenko, Sergei Chernov, Stanislav Ilyukhin

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 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: madness
science
obsession
identity
art
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	5
Humour	3
Realism	4
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	7
Complexity	9
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama, science fiction
Directed by: Evgeny Yufit
Starring: Aleksandr Anikeyenko, Sergei Chernov, Stanislav Ilyukhin, Valeri Krishtapenko, Nikolay Marton, Viktor Mikhaylov, Ivan Zlobin, Yuriy Zverlin
Cinematography: Evgeny Yufit
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Netherlands, Russia
Languages: Russian

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