Prediction (film)

Prediction
Directed by Eldar Ryazanov
Written by Eldar Ryazanov
Starring Oleg Basilashvili
Irène Jacob
Andrey Sokolov
Music by Andrey Petrov
Cinematography Valery Shuvalov
Production
company
Mosfilm, Orly film
Release dates
24 November 1993
Running time
113 minutes
Country Soviet Union, France
Language Russian

Prediction[1] (Russian: Предсказание[2], translit. Predskazaniye) is a 1993 russian film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film is a fantastical melodrama and thriller.

Plot

Famous writer Oleg Goryunov returnes to troublous Moscow from a creative writing trip. The confrontation between president Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet is in full swing, tanks, armored personnel carriers and armed soldiers are on the streets. At the train station a gypsy woman accosted Goryunov and offers to tell his fortunes. He takes it with humor, but suddenly he hears the unexpected ... he shall have some unusual meeting, and the worst thing, in exactly 24 hours Goryunov shall die.

The writer, very embarrassed by such grim predictions, comes home and finds in his apartment ... himself, another Oleg Goryunov, only very young. Shocked, "old Goryunov" tries to find out from "young Goryunov" why they had to meet, but it still remains a mystery ...

Realizing that he has only one day to live, before his death Oleg Goryunov decides to do two most important things, the implementation of which the writer constantly postponed. Firstly, Goryunov wanted to avenge the death of his father. Many years ago, his father was killed by a staff KGB agent, some Poplavskiy, a chemist specializing in poisoning. As a fellow traveler on the train Poplavskiy would get into contact with people undesirable to Soviet regime and poisoned them, so that their deaths looked like a heart attack or a stroke. Both "Goryunovs" come to the research institute where the former executioner works, and require Poplavskiy to make a guilty plea. Trying to escape retribution for his crimes, the poisoner drinks poison himself ...

But the most important thing that Oleg Goryunov decides to do - is to finally confess his love to charming Lyudmila, who works as a cashier in a bank. She reciprocates his feelings, they are together, they are happy, but the harsh reality of life is ready to destroy the lovers. And only "young Oleg Goryunov" is able to save them all...

Cast

Filming

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