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Behind Our House Is a Garden

2025 · 100 min

A tender, slow-burning portrait of ordinary life shadowed by impending catastrophe, blending warmth with quiet dread.

Directed by
Anton Nefedov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Saveliy Kudryashov, Marina Ignatova
Overview
An autobiographical story, set in the city of Grozny in 1994 — its last peaceful year before the outbreak of the First Chechen War, Russia. It follows the life of one family and the tight-knit community of a single courtyard — a place full of warmth, quiet beauty, and the haunting presence of what was to come.

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Directed by
Anton Nefedov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Saveliy Kudryashov, Marina Ignatova
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • war
  • memory
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Anton Nefedov
Written by
Anton Nefedov, Alexander Rodionov
Starring
Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Saveliy Kudryashov, Marina Ignatova, Vladimir Shulga, Guram Bablishvili, Arsen Khetagurov, Ananke Areyru, Ivan Timchenko
Music
Alexander Pustynsky
Cinematography
Mariya Falileeva
Runtime
100 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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