Russian Symphony (1994)

Original title

Русская симфония

Directed by

Konstantin Lopushansky

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, dystopian film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 48m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 17 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.

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How it feels

In a dark flooded Russia, a man wants to do something good before the world ends. People around him respond with suspicion and distrust.

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What happens

Russian Symphony (Russian: Русская симфония, romanized: Russkaya simfoniya) is a 1994 Russian psychological drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia, where the world appears to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion. The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films—Dead Man's Letters (1986), A Visitor to a Museum (1989), and The Ugly Swans (2006)—and is the most overtly religious of them. It played in the Forum section of the 45th Berlin International Film Festival and received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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