A Visitor to a Museum

A Visitor to a Museum (Russian: Посетитель музея, translit. Posetitel muzeya) is a 1989 Soviet-Swiss-West German post-apocalyptic drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky. It was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver St. George and the Prix of Ecumenical Jury.[2]

A Visitor to a Museum
Film poster
Directed byKonstantin Lopushansky
Written byKonstantin Lopushansky
StarringViktor Mikhaylov
CinematographyNikolai Pokoptsev
Production
companies
Release dates
July 1989 (Moscow International Film Festival)
March 1990 (Soviet Union)[1]
Running time
136 minutes
CountriesSoviet Union
Switzerland
West Germany
LanguageRussian

A Visitor to a Museum is the second in a collection of films dubbed the "Apocalypse Quartet" that are directed by Lopushansky that take place in apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic settings. The other films in the quartet are Dead Man's Letters (1986), Russian Symphony (1994), and The Ugly Swans (2006).[3]

Plot

In a post-apocalyptic world (from an unspecified ecological disaster), the population is divided and decimated, including the so-called "degenerates" (mutants deformed as a result of some catastrophic event), and the survivors of the previous civilization. In the depths of the sea exists "the Museum"; it is a place which carries the remains of past civilizations and can only be reached during occasional periods of low tide when the sea becomes a barren desert.

The protagonist of the film is one of the few survivors who has managed to retain the human form and way of thinking.

Cast

References
  1. "Visitor of a Museum (1989) - Release Info". IMDb. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  2. "16th Moscow International Film Festival (1989)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. Groves, Adam. "The Apocalypse Quartet of Konstantin Lopushansky". The Bedlam Files. Retrieved 19 July 2021.


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