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  • 2004
  • Facets Multimedia Distribution
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2004
  • Facets Multimedia Distribution
  • 1 h 35 m
Okraina

Summary In this extraordinary epic, Peter Lutsik creates an astounding chronicle of a country in violent transformation and vividly reveals Russia as alternately corrupt, melancholy, dogmatic, romantic, and spiritual. (Facets Multimedia)

Directed By: Pyotr Lutsik

Written By: Aleksey Samoryadov, Pyotr Lutsik

  • 2004
  • Facets Multimedia Distribution
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2004
  • Facets Multimedia Distribution
  • 1 h 35 m

Okraina

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary In this extraordinary epic, Peter Lutsik creates an astounding chronicle of a country in violent transformation and vividly reveals Russia as alternately corrupt, melancholy, dogmatic, romantic, and spiritual. (Facets Multimedia)

Directed By: Pyotr Lutsik

Written By: Aleksey Samoryadov, Pyotr Lutsik

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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60% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Increasingly violent (although always distanced), The Outskirts is at once appalling and bleakly humorous.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
75
The Outskirts, handsomely directed by Petr Lutsik, will grab people's emotions. The dark and bitter comedy deals with a corrupt, post-communist Russia.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
60
A strange, disturbing and yet occasionally quite funny cultural artifact from the new Russia.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
60
Lutsik takes aim at reckless capitalism --- as well as the increasing Westernization of Russian filmmaking --- with a disquieting allegory that in both themes and aesthetic is an audacious throwback to pre-WWII Soviet cinema formalism.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
50
Grim, phantasmagoric view of recent and not-so-recent Russian history.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Goskino, Morning of the XXI Century Studio
Release Date Apr 2, 2004
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Awards

Russian Guild of Film Critics
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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