The Ugly Swans (film)

The Ugly Swans (film)

infobox film


name = "The Ugly Swans"
director = Konstantin Lopushansky
writer =Konstantin Lopushansky Vyacheslav Rybakov Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (novel)
starring = Gregory Hlady
budget =
distributor = Proline Film
country = Russia
language = Russian
released = 2006
imdb_id = 0439581

"The Ugly Swans" ( _ru. Гадкие лебеди) is a 2006 Russian science fiction film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky, based on the novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The film is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker", also adapted from a Strugatsky book. [ [http://www.lff.org.uk/films_details.php?FilmID=1194 Film description] at the London Film Festival] [ [http://proline-film.com/press/2006/10/13/7.html Article at proline-film.com] ]

Plot

The film's plot is loosely based on the novel, with some superficial differences. The story has been adjusted slightly to contextualize it in the "near future," with the main character Victor Banev recast as a UN envoy to the town of Tashlinsk, where a mysterious group has taken the town's children to an isolated boarding school. The major departure from the novel's plot is in the ending, in which the "Aquatters" ("Slimeys" from the novel) are all killed by the humans. The children are heroically rescued by Banev, but they are unable to reassimilate into society and are institutionalized.

A small role created for the film was a UN negotiator named Gennady Komov, a reference to a popular character from the Strugatskys' other books.

References

External links

* [http://www.lff.org.uk/films_details.php?FilmID=1194 Film description] at the London Film Festival
*imdb title|id= 0439581|title=Gadkie lebedi


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