Egghead Republic (2025)
- Directed by
- Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country
- Sweden
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In an alternate reality where the Cold War never ended, a nuclear bomb has fallen on Soviet Kazakhstan. The film follows people navigating the fallout of this changed world.
alternate-historycoldcontemplativedystopiansombertenseunsettlingvisually stark
What happens
Egghead Republic is a 2025 Swedish science fiction film directed and written by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja. Inspired in part by Kågerman's tenure at Vice Magazine and the novel The Egghead Republic by Arno Schmidt, the film is set in an alternate reality in which the Cold War persists and a nuclear bomb has struck in Soviet Kazakhstan. The film was selected in the Discovery section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and had its World premiere on 6 September 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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