A Visitor to a Museum

A Visitor to a Museum
Film poster
Directed by	Konstantin Lopushansky
Written by	Konstantin Lopushansky
Starring	Viktor Mikhaylov
Cinematography	Nikolai Pokoptsev
Release date	July 1989 (1989-07)
Running time	136 minutes
Countries	Soviet Union Switzerland West Germany
Language	Russian

A Visitor to a Museum (Russian: Посетитель музея, translit. Posetitel muzeya) is a 1989 Soviet 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.^[1]

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 "Apocalypse Quartet" are Dead Man's Letters (1986), Russian Symphony (1994), and The Ugly Swans (2006).^[2]

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[]

• Viktor Mikhaylov
• Vera Mayorova
• Vadim Lobanov
• Irina Rakshina
• Aleksandr Rasinsky
• Iosif Ryklin
• Yu. Sobolev
• Vladimir Firsov

References[]

External links[]

• A Visitor to a Museum at IMDb
• A Visitor to a Museum at Rotten Tomatoes

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