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Martinsh Kalita | ... |
Poruchik
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Viktoriya Solovyova | ... |
Strange Woman
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Anastasiya Imamova | ... |
Tatyana
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Sergey Serov | ... |
Priest
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Kseniya Popovich | ... |
Olya
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Andrey Popovich | ... |
Petya
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Aleksandr Ustyugov | ... |
Navy Officer
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Aleksandr Oblasov | ... |
Steward
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Aleksandr Borisov | ... |
Sailor
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Maksim Bityukov | ... |
Trigorin
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Ilya Kiporenko | ... |
Student
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Sergey Bachurskiy | ... |
Bela Kun
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Vitaliy Kishchenko | ... |
Captain
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Miriam Sekhon | ... |
Zemlyachka
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Denis Vasilev | ... |
Student
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Only one night with the stranger becomes the real delusion for the main character. This "sunstroke" doesn't release it even in most "damned days" of death of the Russian Empire - According to the story of the same name and Ivan Bunin's diaries "Damned days".
While the movie was indeed visually beautiful, almost stunning even, I was left disappointed and annoyed, feeling like I watched 2 movies squeezed into one. I won't give away any plot points: Through the movie we watch the main character's past and present events unfold. However, the past could've been a standalone film, the present as well. The two segments weren't connected by a single detail almost to the very end of the movie, and even then that detail is so minuscule and irrelevant we could've easily gone without it.
When it comes out on DVD, I'd watch it again, selectively watching just scenes from the past, then just scenes from the future, treating myself to 2 movies, instead of a forced ONE movie.