A Visitor to a Museum (1989)

Original title

Посетитель музея

Directed by

Konstantin Lopushansky

Genre

drama film, science fiction film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film

Country

Soviet Union, Germany, Switzerland

Runtime

2h 16m

Rated

12+

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a flooded, post-apocalyptic world, people go on a dangerous trip to see a museum that is partly underwater. The film watches them deal with their ruined environment and their own hopes.

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What happens

A Visitor to a Museum (Russian: Посетитель музея, romanized: Posetitel muzeya) is a 1989 Soviet post-apocalyptic drama film directed and written by Konstantin Lopushansky. It was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival, where it won the Silver St. George and the Prix of Ecumenical Jury. A Visitor to a Museum is the second in a collection of films dubbed the 'Apocalypse Quartet', directed by Lopushansky and set in apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic settings. The other films in the quartet are Dead Man's Letters (1986), Russian Symphony (1994), and The Ugly Swans (2006). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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