

Close Up
1997-02-01 · 16 min · ★ 10.0
A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on Stephen King's novella "The Sun Dog" and Julio Cortázar's short story "Blow-Up" ("Las babas del diablo").
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- Directors
- Yevgeni Zvezdakov
- Production companies
- The Polaroid Corporation, VGIK
- Countries
- Russia
- Status
- Released
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