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The Postman's White Nights

Belye nochi pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna (The Postman's White Nights)

2014

Andrei Konchalovsky

Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Valentina Ananina, Timur Bondarenko ...

6.5

685

Drama The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Some stunning shots and a likable protag can’t cover up the narrative shallowness of Andrei Konchalovsky’s latest drama."	NEU
United States	Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"In any other hands, this is a simple work of social realism (...) But it is also something else, something un-real and elusive."	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Blending fiction with documentary and exquisite film craft with playful improvisational freedom, Andrei Konchalovsky delivers what might be the most captivating screen work of his post-Hollywood career."	POS

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