River

Year: 2002

Runtime: 50 mins

Language: Russian

Director: Aleksey Balabanov

Drama

Set at the close of the 19th century, the film follows a secluded leper colony deep in the Yakut taiga. A healthy young woman, arriving by chance, falls in love with a young male leper and becomes pregnant. When his wife unexpectedly returns from the outside world, their uneasy triangle erupts into tragedy.

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