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Roads to Koktebel (2003)
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Original name: Коктебель
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, road movie, mysterious, serious, realistic, crying
Plot:
boy, on the road, father son relationship, parents and children, alcohol abuse, family relations, family life, human nature, hopes, coming of age, journey, poverty, death of wife, death of mother, survival, nature, youth, summer, railway, little boy, exodus, love and romance, innocence lost, sex, dog ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
russia, ukraine, moscow russia, black sea, crimea, russian
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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