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Location of towns?

posted 15 years ago by SorrowNoMore
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I saw this movie recently and was curious to know where the story was set. Was it in the countryside around St. Petersburg? Where in Russia are Leninsk and Kalyaevo? I'm curious to know as I was wondering about the driving distances between the places the characters went-- the bootlegger's farm in Kalyaevo and the apartment in Leninsk. Are Leninsk and Kalyaevo fictional?

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[–] SorrowNoMore 15 years ago

Thanks, I was curious about the locations in the movie. The Wikipedia article about the movie says that Leninsk is in an "autonomous region" but I can't imagine with AR that would be so near to St. Petersburg.

Also, good call on the Zaporozhets, I thought it was a Lada myself.

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[–] SorrowNoMore 15 years ago

They sure did get the bleak industrial and apartment block hellscapes right. The movie looked great, for sure, and by "great" I mean "authentic."

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[–] SorrowNoMore 15 years ago

This is a lot more information about the movie that I didn't know, thanks for posting. It was a very interesting movie and I appreciate knowing more about it. That being said:

considering there's been a serial killer operating in the area since 1999...who rapes, strangles, and then dismembers his female victims.

That's horrific, but at least they have a better chance of finding this guy now than, say, if he had been operating since 1979, since the authorities didn't even consider consider consulting psychologists to catch serial killers until the case of Andrei Chikatilo in the 1980s.

I hope they catch him, though.

[–] Ralf1 9 years ago

It seems like the actual location was probably inconsequential. It was a metaphor for the grim Soviet provincial life, and the final decade of USSR. Surprisingly realistic, mature, and authentic, unlike some of director's earlier films.