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Dead Man's Letters

1986 · 83 min

A hushed, monochrome trudge through ruin that weighs on you like grief, offering only faint candlelight of hope.

Tagline
Remember your humanity and forget the rest.
Overview
In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will never be read and tries to find shreds of hope in his new reality.

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • survival
  • grief
  • isolation
  • faith
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror5
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, science fiction
Directed by
Konstantin Lopushansky
Written by
Aleksei German, Konstantin Lopushansky, Boris Strugatskiy, Vyacheslav Rybakov
Starring
Rolan Bykov, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, Vera Mayorova, Iosif Ryklin, Evgeniy Platokhin, Svetlana Smirnova, Vyacheslav Vasilyev, Nora Gryakalova
Cinematography
Nikolai Pokoptsev
Runtime
83 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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