Yuri's Day

Yuri's Day

2008 · 134 min · RU · 7.0 (20 votes)
Dir. Kirill Serebrennikov · Starring Kseniya Rappoport, Roman Shmakov, Yevgeniya Kuznetsova, Sergey Sosnovsky, Sergey Medvedev, Igor Khripunov
MysteryDrama

Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.

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A hauntingly beautiful, yet deeply unsettling journey. It's a slow, atmospheric descent into a frozen landscape that mirrors internal turmoil. The search for a lost son becomes a profound exploration of self, set against a starkly beautiful, yet oppressive, Russian backdrop.

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