The director dedicated this lyrical, epic film-confession to the memory of his father who was a doctor. The film’s protagonist, an ambulance doctor, conducts dangerous experiments in search of a vitally important vaccine. His wife believes in his work, though his daughter would not understand him. His son, who is absolutely unlike his father in character, is trying to protect him. But self-denial in the name of science proves too high a price. Just when he is on the verge of discovery, the doctor loses everything he has gathered as a result of his twenty-year-long work. This loss brings him even closer to his son. The shooting of the film continued for seven years (1985-1992), making it a metaphorical culmination of the Soviet cinematography and the Soviet way of life as a whole.

No End
1985
7.0/10
As
2023
7.0/10

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1971
7.0/10

La Notte
1961
7.9/10

The Saragossa Manuscript
1966
7.8/10

Sons
2024
6.8/10

Child's Play 3
1991
5.9/10

Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission
1987
5.5/10

Onibaba
1964
7.7/10

The Man from Laramie
1955
7.2/10

Fantomas
1964
6.8/10

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
7.0/10

Waking Ned
1998
7.0/10

The Dead Pool
1988
6.3/10

Ambush
2023
6.4/10

Contracted: Phase II
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5.3/10

The Insider
1999
7.5/10

Who's Afraid of Dracula?
1985
6.1/10

Infernal Affairs II
2003
7.3/10

Love Streams
1984
7.2/10
Deliverance
1972
7.314/10