Greenhouse Effect () is a 2005 Russian melodrama film directed by Valery Akhadov. Its premiere took place as part of the competition program of the Kinotavr.
Plot A provincial girl, Rita, is robbed of her suitcase at the station. She is all alone in a foreign bustling city with no papers, no money, and no address for her friend.
Rita is assisted by Ernest, a homeless boy, who is also not needed by an indifferent society.
To help Rita, Ernest robs a store and is arrested. With the money stolen by Ernest, Rita leaves for Greece, where she settles in the house of the deceased grandparents of the Greek, a deceased friend of Ernest, and waits for the release of her friend from the colony.
Cast Elena Polyakova as Rita Alexander Yakin as Ernest Alexander Korshunov as doctor Irina Loseva as nurse Marina Igor Petrusenko as Aleksey, observatory worker Pavel Seminihin as police lieutenant Anna Frolovtseva as grandmother Pasha Aleksey Rozin as airport security guard Alexander Fedorov as traveling companion Reception Box office Greenhouse Effect has grossed $30 000. Accolades Valery Akhadov's film was awarded two awards at the Zlín Film Festival. Critical response As film critic Vasily Koretsky (Time Out Russia): "It is rather embarrassing to watch the development of the platonic romance of a boy and a girl; the acting here resembles an overly intimate allusion to daughter-mothers".
According to Valery Kichin, "Valery Akhadov made a powerful picture of a cold world where there is no social protection, and everyone survives alone, a world that does not need people, is not interested in them. This is our new Russia".
Sergey Kudryavtsev notes: "Perhaps, both the motif of robbery with stabbing, and the departure to a happy land, where Goethe's heroes rushed with inescapable longing, seem like overkill in this urban story" and rates the film 6 out of 10.
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