An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.
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- TriviaWriter Karim Hussain said that the film was inspired by obsessions with family and the double aspects of everybody's lives. Also, Hussain based his work on some experiences he lived at his father's farm as a child.
- GoofsWhen Nikolai digs a knife into his leg to remove a bullet, what he actually removes is the shell casing that wouldn't have left the gun.
- ConnectionsFeatures Faust (2000)
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Frightening and Creepy Film of Ghosts, with a Nightmarish Atmosphere but a Dull Story
In 1966, somewhere in Russia, a wounded woman drives a truck to an isolated farm with two babies. Forty years later, the film producer Marie Jones (Anastasia Hille) leaves her daughter in California and travels back to her home land in the wilderness of Russia. Marie is one of the children and had received a phone call from the notary public Andrei Misharin (Valentin Ganev) that had told her where the farm of her family is. Marie arrives in the abandoned house and meets the stranger Nicolai (Karel Roden) that tells her that he had also received a call from Misharin and he is her twin brother. Weird things happen in the house and Marie and Nicolai are haunted by eerie ghosts of themselves. Further, they find that they are trapped in the house and can not leave the place.
"The Abandoned" is a frightening and creepy film of ghosts, with a nightmarish atmosphere but a dull story. The unknown Anastasia Hille has great performance and the cinematography is very dark; but the story is very confused and predictable. Cristopher Smith used in "Triangle" (2009) a similar idea of people trapped in a location that can never leave the cycle. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Abandonados" ("Abandoned")
Note: On 04 January 2021. I saw this film again.
"The Abandoned" is a frightening and creepy film of ghosts, with a nightmarish atmosphere but a dull story. The unknown Anastasia Hille has great performance and the cinematography is very dark; but the story is very confused and predictable. Cristopher Smith used in "Triangle" (2009) a similar idea of people trapped in a location that can never leave the cycle. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Abandonados" ("Abandoned")
Note: On 04 January 2021. I saw this film again.
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Box office
- Budget
- €3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,653,012
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,482,000
- Nov 19, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $4,529,892
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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