The Ugly Swans

The Ugly Swans

6.4IMDb Score
Released:2006-10-19
Duration:109 min
Country:Russia
Director:Konstantin Lopushansky
Actors:Gregory Hlady, Aleksey Kortnev, Leonid Mozgovoy, Rimma Sarkisyan, Olga Samoshina
Production:Proline Film, Catherine Dussart Productions, CNC, Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Gorbachev Foundation
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Overview:

In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. Banev's tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.

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