Gadkie lebedi (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Konstantin Lopushansky

Escritores:

Konstantin Lopushansky (screenplay)
Vyacheslav Rybakov (screenplay)

Género:

Drama | Horror | Misterio | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Airport | Russia | Philosophy | Daughter | Scientist

Premios:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Challenging movie

Reparto

Gregory Hlady	...	Viktor Banev
Leonid Mozgovoy	...	Aizek Golemba
Aleksei Kortnev	...	Pavel Sumak
Rimma Sarkisyan	...	Ira Baneva
Laura Lauri	...	Diana (as Laura Pitskhelauri)
Sergei Barkovsky	...	Gennadi Komov
Dmitri Ispolatov	...	Kunitsa (as Dima Ispolatov)
Olga Samoshina	...	Lyudmila
Aleksei Ingelevich	...	Valentin Pilman
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Konstantin Anisimov
Anna Arapov		(as Anna Arapova)
Gosha Bbc		(as Gosha Bibissy)
Boris Birman
Vadim Boganov
Dmitry Brodsky
Yevgeni Buldakov
Alexandr Duris
Victor Dzekanovsky		(as Vitya Dzekanovsky)
Dmitry Ezhov
Anastassia Falilleeva		(as Nastya Falilleeva)
Dmitry Gerbachevsky
Manana Gogitidze
Vladimir Grigoriev		(as Volodya Grigoriev)
Boris Gurevich
Alexandr Hodot		(as Sasha Hodot)
Alexei Ispolatov
Zhenya Kalchenko
Yuri Kalugin
Nikolai Karapetyan
Irina Korovina
Ilya Kovalev
Sergei Kudryavtsev
Anna Lazurenko		(as Anya Lazurenko)
Andrei Losev
Sergei Lysov
Roman Makarenko
Tatiana Malschitky		(as Tatiana Malschitskaya)
Vadim Malyshev
Vladimir Marianov
Jacques Martel
Maria Miasnikov		(as Masha Miasnikova)
Vassily Mikhailov		(as Vassia Mikhailov)
Victor Mikhailov	...	Zinovy
Tatyana Mishina		(as Tatiana Mishina)
Dmitry Moisseev
Natalia Mokshin		(as Natalya Mokshina)
Igor Naftuliev
Svetlana Nemirovskaya		(as Svetlana Nemirovsky)
Leonid Nitsenko
Oleg Ogui
Yuri Orlov
Irina Osnovina
Aleksandr Pestov
Vassily Petrov		(as Vassia Petrov)
Tatyana Polonskaya		(as Tatiana Polonskaya)
Sergei Ramzayev
Anastassia Rudenko		(as Nastya Rudenko)
Sergei Ruskin		(as Sergey Russkin)
Liudmilla Samsonova
Boris Schwarzmann
Feodor Selvin
Igor Sergeyev
Andrei Shimko
Andrey Sigle
Nikita Svirsky
Scott Tobin
Alexander Tsybulsky
Aleksandr Vasilyev
Boris Vojtsekhovsky		(as Boris Voitzekhovsky)
Dmitry Yagnov
Pavel Yakovlev
Yegor Yevstafiev
Yuri Zaytsev

También conocida como:

Гадкие лебеди (Russia)
Ugly Swans (International: English title) (informal literal title)

Duración:

Russia:105 min

País:

Russia

Idioma:

Ruso

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Locaciones de Filmación:

Kronstadt, Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Compañía:

CNC

Challenging movie

Long ago in Soviet Union lived two brothers -- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. They had a dream -- to live in Communism -- and as they were writers, they devised the World of Noon, the future society of people appreciating creative work the most, socially responsible and enjoying living. It occurred, it wasn't a dream about Communism, that's why the writers soon became anti-Soviet, and the dream started living its separate life, changing, infecting new generations of engineers and scientists, strangely surviving under any system...

"Ugly Swans" are not about World of Noon, but those who are able to appreciate it. So... The future intrudes into our world. Perhaps not a very happy one, because agents of it -- Aquatters -- are targeted by unknown genetic disease. Aquatters came to a provincial Russian town, set the rules they like and started to educate children. For children are our future, and changing them you make the world different. They teach rather strange things: what is hyperspace, and how to change weather, and other things, perhaps pretty important in the world of Aquatters. But top of all, they teach children to _think_.

What's the problem, you would ask? A little one. In children's dreams there's no place for us. Our world is bankrupt, our values are corrupt, our moral is false. They are ruthless... but they only want to live in _their_ world. They go ahead, not looking on us and not caring. It's not surprising that our civilization considers them a menace. We also can be ruthless, and too often we are ruthless without necessity... Writer Viktor Banev who happens to visit the town faces uneasy moral choices. Taking sides. Remaining humane when bad things happen... not little for a single person? The movie is said to be based on the 1967 novel, but paradoxically, ideas spoken out in that moth-eaten year grew only more topical today. And the world too often can't propose growing youths nothing but dull job, race for money and dumb TV shows for entertainment. Who is more miserable, children grown by Aquatters, who can't, don't want to live in our world, or we who don't feel their longing for knowledge and agree with the role of well-trained monkeys? Humanism is also a new facet unveiled in the movie. Old... and new. Whatever the theories, there are living people beyond it... Writer Banev from the 1967 novel acts because he feels contempt for the old world; writer Banev in the movie acts because he feels pain of others... he cares about people, not about worlds, and that, I hope shows that the old world is yet alive.

The last but not least, the movie isn't specifically Russian, more a tale of our civilization. And in, e.g. the United States it would be the same topical, I guess.