The Beast Rising from the Sea

Overview

Based on a novel by Evgeny Zamyatin. In 1920s Petrograd, childless couple Trofim and his wife Sofya adopt their late neighbor’s daughter, thirteen-year-old Ganka, only for Ganka to begin a scandalous affair with her foster father. When Sofya’s despair over the incest drives her to murder Ganka with an axe and conceal the body during a flood, Trofim reports her “missing” to the police, who never recover the corpse. Sofya later becomes pregnant, confesses to the killing, and Trofim, moved by love and guilt, offers to take the blame, though the skeptical investigator doubts any crime occurred.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 6, 1992

Original language

English

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Lithuania, Russia

Production

Studio 2000

Cast

Povilas Budrys,Elena Trepetova,Asta Motuzaitė,Kostas Smoriginas

Director

Vytautas Zalakevicius

Writer

Vytautas Zalakevicius

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3618568