Roads to Koktebel

Roads to Koktebel

2003 · 100 min · RU · 6.5 (20 votes)
Dir. Boris Khlebnikov, Alexey Popogrebsky · Starring Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Yevgeni Syty, Вера Сандрыкина, Vladimir Kucherenko, Anna Frolovtseva
Drama

A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.

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A sparse, meditative journey across a desolate landscape. It feels like a long, quiet train ride through a forgotten Russia, heavy with unspoken grief but tinged with a fragile hope for a better future.

melancholicbleakcontemplativeaustereslow-burnarthouseroad movieminimalistgritty realismfather-son relationshipdisillusionmenthopesurvival
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