Ugly Swans is a serious film cloaked in the genre of science fiction thriller, but made in the Russian tradition.
His image of contemporary hell comes from a novel by the Strugatsky brothers.
This hell is a ghost city w

 Konstantin Lopushansky"s "The Ugly Swans" is, in the best art-house tradition, a puzzle of a film -- some may find it visionary, others infuriating. Based on a 1960s novel by the the Strugatsky brothers, a popular du

… Lopushansky follows the novel’s lead. He doesn’t just scare the viewers with an invasion of aliens,
but like the director Andrei Tarkovsky, he raises existential questions. 

Lopushansky has a unique style as an author; his works can today be viewed as a
separate cultural phenomenon, as a trend in Russian cinematography.