Silent Souls

2010 · 77 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 2,500 VOTES · DIR. Aleksey Fedorchenko

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Overview

Miron Alekseevich, director of a paper and pulp mill, goes to bury his wife Tanya in the place where they once spent their honeymoon. He goes not alone, but with a photographer named Stork, to whom he tells touching details of his life with Tanya. The narrative weaves together the memories of the characters, as well as the rituals and beliefs of the Meri people, a small Finnish tribe that once lived in the Northern Volga region and dissolved among the Russians.

Dialogue Timeline — 298 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:04 The day before yesterday at a pet market in Kostroma...
00:02:11 ...lost somewhere between the woods of Vologda and Vyatka.
00:03:07 Ask me why?
00:04:49 My name is Aist. It's an uncommon name. Obviously Merjan.
00:07:32 Hello, Miron Alekseyevich.
00:10:00 Please.
00:16:35 Then they tie the threads into her pubic hair.
00:20:48 She was embarrassed that she didn't know how to use make-up...
00:21:47 ...while your beloved was still alive.
00:27:44 But I always loved that word.
00:29:52 I looked at her and she understood me
00:31:32 A heap of smooth corn silk, And knotgrass so fine.
00:37:53 - Show me the hedgehog. - The one with the band?
00:38:53 The honeymoon.
00:50:35 Death from water is immortality for a Merjan.
00:52:05 Once we made a hole in the ice and sank his most treasured possession.
00:53:45 He didn't "smoke" at the funeral.
00:56:22 I wasn't there when my father died.
01:00:42 The girls' names were Julia and Rima. They were okay.
01:04:03 I wasn't angry at her. I loved her a lot.
01:05:59 ...when it's his time to become ash and be committed to the water.
01:07:59 We had returned as if an invisible force wouldn't let us leave here.
01:10:36 The buntings grew quiet.
02:00:09 200 small birch ax handles.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed298
Dialogue density3.9 lines / min
First line00:01:04
Final line02:00:09

Production Record

DirectorAleksey Fedorchenko
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes2,500