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Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
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Original name: Полеты во сне и наяву
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, period piece, satirical, tragic
Plot:
middle aged man, midlife crisis, loneliness, existential crisis, alienation, regret, character study, infidelity, family drama, intimate, urban, nostalgia, slice of life, bittersweet, love triangle, engineer, loser, film set, train, railway, young girl, car, crisis, soviet, psychological drama
Place:
soviet union, poetic realism, ussr, russian
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Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: Soviet Union
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Country: Soviet Union
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