A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya) [Sub: Eng]
Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s short story A Gentle Creature about a woman who travels to a prison in a remote region to track down her incarcerated husband.
June 24, 1973 in Kovdor, Murmanskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
July 12, 1966 in Tyumen, Russia
November 30, 1974
July 9, 1938 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine]
August 22, 1955 in Legnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
November 14, 1977 in Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
12 September 1961, Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
April 18, 2018
It's not an easy film to watch, packed with symbolism and references that will be lost on most Western viewers.April 17, 2018
A Gentle Creature is too overblown with its anti-Russia stance, consistently missing the intended target of the country's suffocating bureaucracy in order to portray ordinary Russians as being as corrupt as those in charge.May 26, 2017
The sheer scope of the project demands recognition. It misses the moon by a galaxy, but at least it is has the nerve to take the shot.April 13, 2018
[A Gentle Creature] is a wonderfully strange and thought-provoking cinematic experience.May 25, 2017
A Gentle Creature is not what one might call a fun watch. But it's also obviously not just horror for horror's sake.April 10, 2018
After two-and-a-half hours of punishing, brutal drama, you'll probably feel almost as battered as the poor heroine.August 27, 2018
A Gentle Creature truly is a grotesque, Kafka-esque nightmare vision, a nihilistic yowl of pain.May 25, 2017
A captivating, hallucinatory plunge into Russia's atrophied civil society, in which a woman's search for answers is rewarded with humiliation and abuse.April 18, 2018
The film gives us a rich, clammy idea of Russia's horrors as we follow a woman (Vasilina Makovtseva) into a bureaucratic hell.April 12, 2018
Putting a Grimm slant on a Dostoevskian fable, Sergei Loznitsa exposes the Russian soul to pitiless scrutiny in this gruelling odyssey.April 10, 2018
Leading man Neumann is a find in his screen debut, with the looks of 'Liberty Valance'-era Lee Van Cleef.April 14, 2018
This challenging film requires some patience but the reward is a portrait of Russia that feels like a howl of anguish.