Killed by Lightning

Killed by Lightning

6.3IMDb Score
Released:2002-06-27
Duration:65 min
Country:Russia
Director:Evgeny Yufit
Actors:Aleksandr Anikeyenko, Aleksandr Maskalin, Vera Novikova, Olga Semyonova, Elena Simonova
Production:CTB Film Company, The Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation, Fondazione MonteCinemaVerità Locarno, Hubert Bals Fund, Nikola Film

Overview:

An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.

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