Killed by Lightning

APPROPIATE

2002 / 65min.

Rating6

Genres

Drama

Science Fiction

Synopsis

An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.

Directors

Actors

Vera Novikova

Elena Simonova

Olga Semyonova

Sergei Chernov

Aleksandr Anikeyenko

Aleksandr Maskalin

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