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The Soloist

2026 · 90 min

An unsettling psychological drama that blurs performance and pathology, keeping you tense and morally off-balance throughout.

Directed by
Serhii Storozhev
Genres
Drama
Starring
Oleksandr Yarema, Iryna Mak, Serhii Denha
Overview
A cynical actor, Lev, is fired from the theater where he has worked his entire life. In order to earn a living, he finds himself in a psychiatric hospital, pretending to be mentally ill. There, he commits a serious crime, and the question arises: who is he - a mentally ill person or a brilliant actor?

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Directed by
Serhii Storozhev
Genres
Drama
Starring
Oleksandr Yarema, Iryna Mak, Serhii Denha
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 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
  • identity
  • madness
  • obsession
  • morality
  • isolation
Places
  • hospital
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Serhii Storozhev
Written by
Serhii Storozhev
Starring
Oleksandr Yarema, Iryna Mak, Serhii Denha, Maryna Koshkina, Daria Barikhashvili, Oleksii Trytenko, Yelyzaveta Tsilyk, Yevhen Nyshchuk
Cinematography
Yevhenii Kyrei
Runtime
90 min
Country
Ukraine
Languages
Ukrainian

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