''Crystal Swan'' () is a 2018 Belarusian
drama film
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directed by
Darya Zhuk
Darya Zhuk is an independent film director and playwright of Belarusian origin. She was born in Minsk in 1980, at the age of 16 she left to the USA where she studied economics at Harvard and started her career as a business analyst at HBO. She bec ...
. It was selected as the Belarusian entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
91st Academy Awards
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, but it was not nominated.
Plot
In the 1990s, Velya hopes to leave Belarus and become a
DJ in the United States. Her plans change following an error on her visa application.
Cast
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Alina Nasibullina as Velya
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Ivan Mulin as Stepan
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Yuri Borisov as Alik
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Svetlana Anikey as Velya's mother
*Ilya Kapanets as Kostya
*Anastasiya Garvey as Vika
*Lyudmila Razumova as Alya
*Natalya Onishenko as Angela
*Anatoly Golub
*Artem Kuren
*Vyacheslav Shakalido as Mihalych
Reception
''Crystal Swan'' has an approval rating of 100% on
review aggregator
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website
Rotten Tomatoes
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, based on 13 reviews, and an average rating of 7/10.
Metacritic
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assigned the film a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "generally favourable review".
[https://www.metacritic.com/movie/crystal-swan?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1c ]
See also
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References
External links
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2018 films
2018 drama films
Belarusian drama films
2010s Russian-language films
Russian-language drama films
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