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The Painting

1989 · 52 min

A talky, stage-like chamber piece where a mundane hotel room becomes a quietly unsettling stage for ideas and unease.

Directed by: Iosif Raykhelgauz
Genres: Drama, Tv movie, Comedy
Starring: Pyotr Shcherbakov, Sergei Yursky, Gregori-Said Bagov

Overview: An engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger.

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Directed by: Iosif Raykhelgauz
Genres: Drama, Tv movie, Comedy
Starring: Pyotr Shcherbakov, Sergei Yursky, Gregori-Said Bagov

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Tone: satiricalstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 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: identity
art
class
isolation
deception
Places: big city
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	5
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama, tv movie, comedy
Directed by: Iosif Raykhelgauz
Written by: Viktor Slavkin
Starring: Pyotr Shcherbakov, Sergei Yursky, Gregori-Said Bagov
Cinematography: Aleksandr Pugachyov
Runtime: 52 min
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian

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