Assa

Assa

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Release Date

11/1/1987

Runtime

153 mins

Overview

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Budget

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Revenue

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A dreamy, dangerous love story set against Crimea's frozen winter, braiding together a young musician's doomed attraction to a mobster's mistress with echoes of historical conspiracy. Lush and lawless, moving at its own hypnotic pace.

Mood

RomanticTenseWistful

Themes

LoveObsessionCrime

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

PainterlyStylized genre

Structure

Nonlinear

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Graphic violence

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