Under Electric Clouds
Competition
Official Selection
Film Festival 2015
Under Electric Clouds
A Film by Alexey German Jr.
2015 - Russia/Ukraine/Poland - Drama - DCP - 2.35 - 137 min.
with Louis Franck , Merab Ninidze , Viktoriya Korotkova & Chulpan Khamatova
Language: Russian
Produced by Sergey Antonov & Egor Olesov and Dariusz Jablonski
Russia, 2017. The world is on the verge of a great war. Evolving around an unfinished building, people struggle to find their place in this collapsing society, making up the mosaic of existence that is life itself.
Competition
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