Papers, Please: The Short Film
2018 · 10 min · Director: Nikita Ordynskiy
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The game Papers, please was the discovery of 2013, at least when it comes to independent titles, and its interesting, cold-war climate from behind the eastern part of the Iron Curtain has now been transferred to another medium. A group of filmmakers, in cooperation with the creator of the game, Lucas Pop, created a short film showing the hard life of a border guard in a fictional Arstotzka. Nikita and Liliya Ordynskiy worked on the film. The main character is an employee of one of the fictitious, totalitarian countries of the Eastern Bloc. His task is to check documents of people trying to cross the border and decide who will be able to receive this honor. His work is made difficult not only by paperwork, but also by his own conscience.
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Papers, Please: The Short Film (2018) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Anxiety 35%, Tension 25%, Empathy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Anxiety35%
- Tension25%
- Empathy20%
- Relief10%
- Disturbing10%
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The strongest emotional signals are Anxiety, Tension, Empathy. Genres: Thriller, Drama, Short. AI estimate.
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Cast
Ivana Robinsky
Eliza
Issac Robinsky
Details
- Directed by
- Nikita Ordynskiy
- Written by
- Nikita Ordynskiy, Liliya Tkach, Lucas Pope
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2018
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Country
- Russia
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Anxiety
- Data updated
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