Cruelty (1959)

Original title

Жестокость

Directed by

Vladimir Skuybin

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young police officer in the post-revolutionary Soviet countryside becomes disillusioned with the brutal methods used by his colleagues to enforce the law. He tries to do what is right in a world where justice is harsh and personal.

tensegrimbleakatmosphericslow-burnmelancholicmorally complexearnest

What happens

Cruelty (Russian: Жестокость, romanized: Zhestokost) is a 1959 Soviet dramatic film directed by Vladimir Skuybin and based on Pavel Nilin's 1956 novel of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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