CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1988
Ashik Kerib posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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MOVIE1988 1h 13m RUS

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Ashik Kerib

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Its poetic, tableau-based portrait of an artist shares Ashik Kerib’s icon-like imagery, Caucasian cultural texture, musical sense of rhythm, and delight in symbolic objects and ritual.

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Movie / 1967 / Drama / Fantasy / Horror

Viy

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A Gogol-derived folk nightmare with tactile period design and striking practical fantasy imagery; it preserves the pleasure of entering an old tale, but shifts toward eerie supernatural suspense.

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