The read
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, Boris, a former boxing who is running from something, wakes up in train and see four letters MAR_S. From his first steps he starts to meet new people as Gregori, young man with a dream who is in love with local librarian, Greta, whose dream is to get out from this god-forgotten town. With each new step, he is meeting new people, but the past is hard to escape
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do.
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Anna MelikyanDirector
- Anna MelikyanScreenplay
Cast
- Nana KiknadzeGreta
- Artur SmolyaninovGrigori
- Evgeniya DobrovolskayaGalka
- Elena MorozovaVera
- Yana EsipovichGirl with plait
- Gosha KutsenkoBoris Nikitin (as Gosha Kutsenko)
- Aleksandra SkachkovaLyudmila (as Aleksandra Berezovets-Skachkova)
- Nadezhda KamenkovitchNadya (as Nadya Kamenkovich)
- Alexander IlinCast
- Gali AbaydulovCast
- Andrey BatukhanovCast
- Vladimir KremenaCast
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Themes
woman director