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Screening of "The Gentle One"

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28.02.2026 · 14:00 · UTC+3
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Moscow
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The film based on the story by F. M. Dostoevsky returns to the story of a girl who seeks salvation from poverty in marriage and finds herself trapped in someone else's power. The screening dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Iya Savvina offers a rare psychological drama about pride, fear, silent hope, and the price of silence. The film resonates sharply in conversations about boundaries and personal freedom. The story begins with an almost mundane decision: a young poor girl agrees to marry a taciturn moneylender who promises her protection and stability. Instead of salvation, she enters a world where every movement is measured by debts, the past, and unspoken grievances. The camera closely follows gestures, pauses, and shadows on the characters' faces - it is through them that the violence, which is rarely named, emerges. A special place in the film is occupied by Iya Savvina's performance. Her character is almost always silent, listening, observing, obeying the rules of a foreign home, and yet remains a living, feeling person. Small domestic details - from a modest dress to cautious movements around the room - become the language through which the story of shattered dignity is told. The film is structured as a confession of a husband who, after a tragedy, tries to reconstruct the chain of events and understand how their life together turned into a trap. His voice sounds over the screen action, organizing the past into compartments, but the answers elude him. Important roles are played by the mise-en-scènes: a cramped apartment, closed doors, objects turned into symbols of power and dependency. The film helps to see familiar behavior patterns - devaluation, manipulation, attempts to "re-educate" a partner - in a concentrated form and to apply them to modern stories. There are no direct moral conclusions here, but there are many reasons to reflect on how relationships are built, where patience ends, and why silence sometimes sounds louder than a scream. Where to go in Moscow today is known by KudaGo.

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