The Red Flute (1989)
- Original title
- Месть
- Directed by
- Yermek Shinarbayev
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 31 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man seeks vengeance for a past wrong. The story unfolds across generations in the Soviet Union, showing how cycles of retaliation affect people and their families.
meditativesomberslow-pacedmelancholicreflectiveatmosphericpoeticbrooding
What happens
Revenge (Russian: Месть, romanized: Mest, literally "Revenge", also known as The Reed Flute) is a 1989 Soviet historical drama film directed by Ermek Shinarbaev and written by Anatoli Kim. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The film was restored in 2010 by the World Cinema Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna / L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory and released as Revenge. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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