Den Gneva

Soviet Union • 1985 • 84m •

• Directed by: Sulambek Mamilov. • Starring: Juozas Budraitis, Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Ivanov, Grazina Baikstyte, Svetlana Svetlichnaya, Konstantin Zakharchenko, Marina Fominova, Maryana Polteva, Vladimir Ivashov, Pavel Makhotin, Evgeniy Dvorzhetskiy, Paul Butkevich. • Music by: Giya Kancheli.

An American TV-journalist is interested in the trail of some strange mystery embedded in a mountainous region of the USA. After much red tape, he is allowed to enter the area. A sullen guide convoys him through several farms inhabited by even more sullen and withdrawn people. The journalist cannot help minding their weird behaviour, and especially that of one kid who also seems to be a math whiz. With some effort, he discovers an explanation to the mystery and convinces his guide to help him reveal it to the rest of the world.

Review:

A well-known reporter is to write an article about otarks - creatures that appeared as a result of scientific experiment the purpose of which was to check what a creature with artificially enhanced thinking abilities would be. They were bred from bears originally. But the experiment went wrong: otarks could crack logarithms and Einstein's theory but they were inhuman, they had no pity, compassion, friendliness. In the long run the reporter witnesses the ruin brought upon the local farmers, otarks hunting a girl,and hears a lot of blood-curdling stories. The otarks kill the forester, and eventually besiege the reporter in the abandoned building of the laboratory where the experiment began long ago. The film is about the responsibility of scientists and, probably, about the nature of a human being. It is positive that reason and thinking ability do not make a creature a "human being". The film is almost forgotten, but not rightly so. It is worth seeing.

Review by hmsgroop from the Internet Movie Database.

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