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The Tribe

Play trailer Poster for The Tribe Released Jun 19, 2015 2h 10m Crime Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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While attending a boarding school for the deaf, a young man (Grigoriy Fesenko) joins a gang of criminals to become a thief and a pimp.
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A bleak, haunting drama whose wordless dialogue speaks volumes, The Tribe is a bold, innovative take on silent films for a contemporary audience.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Blue Lenses Little can prepare you for The Tribe in a number of senses, but it is unhesitatingly a film that should be considered essential for anyone with a passion for intelligent, challenging cinema. Aug 25, 2018 Full Review J. Hoberman The New York Review of Books The movie is leisurely as well as graphic in its representation of sex and violence and, predicated on long takes, is visceral in a wholly unexpected way. Mar 28, 2017 Full Review Kristen Yoonsoo Kim Complex With The Tribe, the power of communication is restructured and re-examined, with a story that's strange and disturbing enough to haunt you. Feb 22, 2017 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Impressively commanding audience commitment to its increasingly disturbing narrative, it's a compelling scenario suggesting the universally understood ordeal of finding out true love is blind. Rated: 4/5 Oct 9, 2020 Full Review C.J. Prince Way Too Indie The Tribe could have gotten away with its desire to be nothing more than an ode to the virtues of rehearsal, if it didn't try to pretend it was anything more than that. Rated: 4/10 Jun 3, 2019 Full Review Cameron Ward One Room With A View Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's audacious feature debut masters visual storytelling without a single utterance. Rated: 5/5 May 31, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jerry F I can't believe I watched a 2 hour movie in sign language, no dialogue at all and I was able to follow it without a problem. They were able to direct it in a way that everything completely clear to the viewers. The plot was interesting knowing that things like this actually happen, and even more. The acting was very good the dynamic between the characters was excellent. I didn't expect the ending but in my opinion was perfect. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/29/24 Full Review Audience Member Interesting premise, poorly executed. The story seems very weak, and there is almost no character development, so that every character becomes an interchangeable prop, and the fact that all of the characters are deaf and only speak in sign language starts to feel like a gimmick. The characters’ deafness is only relevant to a couple of very brief interactions in the movie. So, what are we left with? A story that tells us that people in horrible circumstances do horrible things, regardless of whether they are deaf or not? But none of the characters in this movie comes across as people, and we are never shown any part of their lives except when they are together, being awful. So they are completely de-humanized, and after a while nothing is shocking any more. Is that a deliberate choice by the director - make us feel desensitized, just as the characters are “missing” a sense? I don’t think so, it’s just not good story-telling. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/11/23 Full Review Audience Member The set-up is incredibly intriguing, the atmosphere is palpable and one has to congratulate the filmmakers doing a kind of silent film about people in such extreme margins, but apart from a striking finale, it doesn't really dig under your skin - perhaps it's lack of empathy or genuine connection between the subject and the filmmakers. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member A must-see, if you like European cinema. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review lucca b With stunning cinematography and unhinged performances, and without any audible dialogue, this drama makes for a thoughtful, bleak, haunting, bold, timely and innovative viewing experience. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A unique and astonishing triumph. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis While attending a boarding school for the deaf, a young man (Grigoriy Fesenko) joins a gang of criminals to become a thief and a pimp.
Director
Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Screenwriter
Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Distributor
Drafthouse Films
Production Co
Ukrainian State Film Agency, Garmata Film Production, Rinat Akhmetov's Foundation Development of Ukraine
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
Ukrainian
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 19, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 23, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$149.8K
Runtime
2h 10m
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