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“She is punished for her “desertion” of her Motherland when, on her way to Stokholm airport in order to return home, she is killed in a motor accident. The message is clear: good girls stay in Russia, with their families and should not think above their (domesticated) station.”

The theme of physical survival is perhaps the major one in the cinema of the post-Soviet period and, increasingly, women can survive only if they rely on each other and not on men.

и вы кстати не обращайте внимания, я сейчас живу изучением российского кино со времен перестройки и до сегодня