Wounded Game (1977)

Original title

Подранки

Directed by

Nikolai Gubenko

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A writer goes back to the city of his childhood during wartime. He tries to find out what happened to his siblings who he lost touch with. The journey forces him to remember a painful past of loss and broken family connections.

melancholicreflectiveslow-burnsomberpoignantnostalgicatmosphericintimate

What happens

Wounded Game (Russian: Подранки, romanized: Podranki, also released on video in the US as The Orphans) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikolai Gubenko. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of a writer who returns to his wartime childhood city to uncover the fates of his estranged siblings, reliving a harsh past of loss, survival, and fractured family bonds amid the lingering shadows of war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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