Gadkie lebedi (2006)AKA The Ugly Swans Synopsis: The writer, Viktor Banev, is seconded to the UN mission in Tashlinsk... See full synopsis » Director:Konstantin Lopushansky |
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Gadkie lebedi (2006)AKA The Ugly Swans Synopsis: The writer, Viktor Banev, is seconded to the UN mission in Tashlinsk... See full synopsis » Director:Konstantin Lopushansky |
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Viktor Banev
(as also Grigoriy Gladiy)
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Leonid Mozgovoy | ... |
Ayzek Golemba
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Aleksey Kortnev | ... |
Pavel Sumak
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Rimma Sarkisyan | ... |
Ira Baneva
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Laura Lauri | ... |
Diana
(as Laura Pitskhelauri)
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Sergey Barkovskiy | ... |
Gennadiy Komov
(as also Sergei Barkovsky)
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Dmitriy Ispolatov | ... |
Bora Kunitsa
(as Dima Ispolatov)
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Olga Samoshina | ... |
Lyudmila
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Aleksey Ingelevich | ... |
Valentin Pilman
(as also Aleksei Ingelevich)
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Viktor Mikhaylov | ... |
Mokrets Zinoviy
(as Victor Mikhailov)
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Viktor Dzekanovskiy | ... |
(as Vitya Dzekanovskiy, Victor Dzekanovsky)
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Vladimir Grigoryev | ... |
(as Volodya Grigoriev, Vladimir Grigoriyev)
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Vasiliy Petrov | ... |
(as Vasya Petrov, also Vasily Petrov)
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Ilya Kovalev |
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Anastasiya Rudenko | ... |
(as Nastya Rudenko, also Anastasia Rudenko)
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AKA The Ugly Swans Synopsis: The writer, Viktor Banev, is seconded to the UN mission in Tashlinsk... See full synopsis »
This beautiful, small budget film plays like a tribute to Tarkovsky's films(shakuhachi music and dripping water), but it is more conversational and quite direct in its message, which isn't simplistic, for all that directness. That message rings true these days as much as it did when the novel was written. Has the world become dangerously, insidiously pedestrian and banal? Have we squandered our potential utterly? The spirit of the film, the whole tone of it, is alienating - we cease to trust ourselves a little bit while watching it. It is a fairly short film too, it doesn't tax the viewer in that way, although it will challenge viewers. The Strugatsky brothers are my favorite Russian authors, and this film does, above all else, capture the spirit of their book, as well as can be expected. I sure would like to find it on DVD.