Test (2014)

Original title

Испытание

Directed by

Alexander Kott

Genre

silent film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

14A

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1949 on a remote Kazakh farm near a nuclear test site, a young woman named Dina lives with her father. Two men compete for her love. The film has no dialogue.

silentquietpoignantmelancholictenseslow-burnvisually lushdreamlike

What happens

Test (Russian: Испытание) is a 2014 Russian film about a doomed love triangle, set in 1949 on the prairie of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in present-day Kazakhstan, near the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. The film does not have dialogue. The main character, Dina, lives with her father Tolgat on a serene farm that is near a nuclear test site. Dina is gentle, has a strong attachment to nature, and loves art. She loves to scrapbook and collage with the leaves and sticks. In one of her scrapbooks she creates a plane flying away representing her dream to one day travel and escape the isolation she feels in the remote farmland. "Unspecified in the movie itself, the geographical setting can be deduced as somewhere near Semey in modern-day Kazakhstan, then known as Semipalatinsk — notorious as the site of the USSR’s first nuclear test, in August 1949." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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