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

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.

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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)

Trailer

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