Crystal Swan

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Crystal Swan

2018

1h 33m

Drama

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71%

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In the 1990s Belarus, a young woman is derailed by a typo in a forged U.S. visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

05/20/2020

3/4

Throughout the film, it's as if mundane objects hold the remedies for the wretchedness of everyday life.

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David Ehrlich

IndieWire

07/13/2018

B

[Crystal Swan] is so effective at capturing the hopefulness of someone who's seized by the promise of a better life, and the desperation she feels when that promise starts to slip through her fingers.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

07/06/2018

While some nuances may go over the heads of international audiences, its core social and economic frustrations are universal ones, driven by Velya's fundamentally sympathetic wanderlust.

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06/01/2020

Standard for this genre of movie, can't knock it but can't give it above 2.5.

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05/26/2020

this film needs to be seen because it brings a kind of hope and strength that is not common. A phrase from Niet is well suited to capture the essence of this film, "he who has a why to live can bear almost any how".

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07/13/2019

Painful to watch. Film schoolish and one-liner.

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Synopsis

In the 1990s Belarus, a young woman is derailed by a typo in a forged U.S. visa application, forcing her to a backwater village where she is determined to fake her way to the American dream.

Director: Darya Zhuk
Producer: Valery Dmitrotchenko, Birgit Gernböck, Olga Goister, Debbie Vandermeulen
Screenwriter: Darya Zhuk, Helga Landauer
Production Co: TurnstyleTV, Demarsh-Film, Vice Studios, Unfound Content, Fusion Features, Crystal Goose
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Russian
Runtime: 1h 33m