The Distance
2014 · 80 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 399 VOTES · DIR. Sergio Caballero
Overview
A heist film unlike any you've ever seen. In his second film (following his debut Finisterrae), Sergio Caballero plays fast and loose with all the laws of genre filmmaking. The ‘distance’ in the title is the ultimate MacGuffin - the term coined by Hitchcock for the thing the characters are pursuing, but which for the audience is completely meaningless. The fact that everyone communicates by telepathy enables Caballero to ‘speak’ a lingua franca made up of many different languages: from the Russian of the dwarves and the guard, to the German of the artist and the Chinese of the guard with the brazier.
Dialogue Timeline — 244 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:49 Vasiliy Lebedev was a young peasant from Crimea
00:02:05 of "UFOs" and portals to the "beyond".
00:03:53 THE DISTANCE
00:13:09 Nicolai "The Blacksmith" had good things to say about him.
00:16:49 What's "The Distance"?
00:22:18 Stop guarding The Distance and take me to the chimney.
00:26:14 The horses' rumps In unison"
00:27:06 What do you want me to do about it, Scumek?
00:32:17 Peeling potatoes, Cinderella...
00:38:16 What I'm not sure about is where we can get it in...
00:40:02 Baransky, you son of a bitch...
00:43:59 Mr. Engineer...
00:48:23 Do we have to listen to Lenin every day?
00:49:49 And he reappears further along.
00:50:29 But three of them escaped and, because of the testing...
00:51:18 Baransky...
00:53:37 Olga Paviova was a Russian writer
00:54:49 Thursday.
00:56:42 we'll have dinner tonight...
00:57:42 He's gotten a letter from his lover.
01:01:12 This can't happen while we're inside.
01:08:02 Behind this wall.
01:16:39 I'm leaving.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed244
Dialogue density3.0 lines / min
First line00:00:49
Final line01:16:39
Production Record
DirectorSergio Caballero
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes399