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The Night of the Fourth Circle

1982 · 72 min

A quiet, pressure-cooker night of bureaucratic conscience, where one man's stubborn duty becomes a slow, tense moral stand.

Directed by
Igor Usov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Nikolai Volkov Jr., Yevgeni Kindinov, Olga Ageeva
Overview
A train with a nuclear reactor should arrive at the junction railway station outside the schedule. To miss it means to disrupt the movement of other trains. The attendant assumes responsibility and decides to detain the unscheduled train. And now-during this night-he will defend his decision...

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Directed by
Igor Usov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Nikolai Volkov Jr., Yevgeni Kindinov, Olga Ageeva
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • morality
  • work
  • power
  • isolation
  • justice
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Igor Usov
Written by
Pyotr Popogrebskiy
Starring
Nikolai Volkov Jr., Yevgeni Kindinov, Olga Ageeva, Veleriy Zakharyev, Aleksandr Samoylov, Andrey Danilov, Pyotr Kadochnikov, Leonid Tikhomirov
Music
Nadezhda Simonyan
Cinematography
Yevgeni Shapiro
Runtime
72 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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