Twenty minutes to decide if your absent father deserves forgiveness — or nothing.
Young business lady Anna unexpectedly learns that her father, whom she last saw when she was 2 years old, is living out his days in a hospice. Anna will have to make a difficult decision for herself: to enter her father’s room or stay on the sidelines and never think about him again. Will the heroine be able to forgive her own father and find harmony within herself? Or is the wound too deep? Our movie will tell about this.
Acting
Sukhareva's face does the work of ten monologues.
Direction
Olikhver stretches 20 minutes into an eternity of choice.
Director
Evgenia Olikhver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian hospice cinema has quietly exploded post-pandemic, interrogating Soviet-era stoicism around death and family silence.
The 20-minute runtime isn't convenience — it's narrative pressure, forcing Anna (and us) into the same impossible time constraint.
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