Greenhouse Effect (film)

Greenhouse Effect (Russian: Парниковый эффект, romanized: Parnikovyy effekt) is a 2005 Russian melodrama film directed by Valery Akhadov. Its premiere took place as part of the competition program of the Kinotavr.[2]

Greenhouse Effect
Theatrical release poster
Directed byValery Akhadov
Written byOleg Antonov
Produced by
  • Sergei Zernov
  • Svetlana Kuchmaeva
Starring
  • Elena Polyakova
  • Alexander Yakin
  • Alexander Korshunov
CinematographyRostislav Pirumov
Music byDarin Sysoev
Production
company
Tsentrnauchfilm
Distributed byPan Terra
Release date
2005
Running time
93 min.
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Box office$30 000[1]

Plot

A provincial girl Rita was robbed of a suitcase with things at the station. Rita is all alone in a foreign bustling city with no papers, no money, and no address for her fleeting friend.

Suddenly, Rita is helped by a homeless boy named Ernest, who is also not needed by an indifferent society. Only lonely hearts push each other away.

Wanting to help Rita, Ernest commits a store robbery, he is arrested. With the money stolen by Ernest, Rita leaves for Greece, where she settles in the house of the deceased grandfather and grandmother of the Greek, the deceased friend of the Ernest, and waits for the release of her friend from the colony.

Cast

Reception

Box office

Greenhouse Effect has grossed $30 000.[1]

Accolades

Valery Akhadov's film was awarded two awards at the Zlín Film Festival.

Critical response

As film critic Vasily Koretsky (Time Out Russia): "It is rather embarrassing to watch the development of the platonic romance of a boy and a girl; the acting here resembles an overly intimate allusion to daughter-mothers".[3]

According to Valery Kichin, "Valery Akhadov made a powerful picture of a cold world where there is no social protection, and everyone survives alone, a world that does not need people, is not interested in them. This is our new Russia".[4]

Sergey Kudryavtsev notes: "Perhaps, both the motif of robbery with stabbing, and the departure to a happy land, where Goethe's heroes rushed with inescapable longing, seem like overkill in this urban story" and rates the film 6 out of 10.[5]

References
  1. Greenhouse Effect at the Kinopoisk
  2. Просянов, Жан (2022-10-16). "Парниковый эффект (2005)". kino-teatr.ru (in Russian).
  3. Корецкий, Василий. "Рецензия на фильм «Парниковый эффект»". Time Out (in Russian).
  4. Кичин, Валерий (2011-11-12). "Монреаль-2005: Искусство выживания". Film.ru (in Russian).
  5. Кудрявцев, Сергей (2007-08-03). "Требуется няня. Юные герои отечественных фильмов между добром и злом". ps.1sept.ru (in Russian).


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