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69% Critic Match
The Gateway
6.9 / 10• 2017• 1h 47m•NR• Ukrainian
DramaComedyFantasyHorror
Storyline
Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.
Cast & Crew
Irma Vitovska
Baba Prisia
Lead
Vitalina Bibliv
Slava
Dmytro Yaroshenko
Cop
Dmytro Tuboltsev
Dad
Yaroslav Fedorchuk
Vovchyk
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Volodymyr Tykhyy's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Gateway is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
