Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)

Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)

Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)
Lebedyne ozero. Zona (original title)
1h 36min | Drama | 1990 (Soviet Union)

Storyline:

This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker.

User review:

This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality.

A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker; which is spoilt by the woman’s jealous young son.

The convict is then forced to undergo a tragic bid for freedom which ends with the beauty of swans contrasted with the imprisoned convicts and the hopeful but ultimately tragic wait by the woman for her lover.

Director: Yuri Ilyenko
Writer: Sergei Parajanov
Stars: Viktor Solovyov, Lyudmila Efimenko, Pylyp Ilyenko
Country: Soviet Union | Sweden | Canada
Language: Ukrainian
Release Date: 1990 (Soviet Union)
Also Known As: Swan Lake: The Zone