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Children of Cast-Iron Gods (1993)
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Original name: Дети чугунных богов
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhuman. The only excitement in the grimy industrial town is provided by robbing a train at gunpoint or stealing sheep from the Bashkiri tribe. The most renowned diversion, however, is the annual fist fight between the strongest metal worker and the strongest miner from the region. Against his better judgment, but with the support of his co-workers, Ignat decides to take part in this perilous venture.
Style:
grim, period drama, grotesque
Plot:
fistfight, factory, working class, workplace, survival, danger, realism, machismo, blue collar, poverty, heroism, machinery, train robbery, isolation, ritual, tradition, moral dilemma, post soviet, theft, union, village, female nudity, miner, bare breasts, smoking ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
russia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, bleak, independent film and grim films with plots about survival, poverty, isolation, working class, realism, social realism and intimate mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Children of Cast-Iron Gods: La mia preda (1990), Eden (2016), Hobal (2024), For Marx... (2012), Vagabond (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 85 min.
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Duration: 71 min.
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, intercultural, independent film
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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