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Killed by Lightning

2002-06-27 · 65 min · ★ 6.3

Drama · Science Fiction

An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.

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Directors
Evgeny Yufit
Production companies
CTB Film Company, The Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation, Fondazione MonteCinemaVerità Locarno, Hubert Bals Fund, Nikola Film
Countries
Russia
Status
Released

Top Cast

Aleksandr Anikeyenko
Aleksandr Maskalin
Vera NovikovaVera Novikova
Olga Semyonova
Elena SimonovaElena Simonova
Sergei ChernovSergei Chernov
Yuriy Zverlin
Yevgeniy Alp
Yuliya Blagaya
Yuriy Krasev
Igor Roldugin
Yevgeniy Struchkov
Yevgeniy Titov
Georgiy Tseits
Olga SemyonovaOlga Semyonova

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