3.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Precipice (1984)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 3.4
Overview
Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central subject matter, a 'precipice' or critical crisis, is inherently broad and can be interpreted from various political perspectives; without specific plot details or thematic emphasis on a particular ideological solution, there is no basis to assign a left or right bias.
The movie features traditional casting without explicit race or gender swaps of established roles. The narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities, without presenting explicit critiques or centering on DEI themes.
Secondary
Reflecting the Soviet era's state atheism, the film implicitly or explicitly portrays traditional religious beliefs, particularly Russian Orthodoxy, as outdated, superstitious, or an impediment to modern societal progress.
The film "The Precipice" by Vladimir Vengerov does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on other social and personal dramas, thus rendering the LGBTQ+ portrayal as not applicable.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1984 film "The Precipice" is an adaptation of Ivan Goncharov's 1869 novel. A review of the film's characters and cast against the source material reveals no instances where a character's established gender was changed for the screen.
The 1984 Soviet film "The Precipice" is an adaptation of an 1869 Russian novel. The characters in the source material are historically and canonically white, and there is no evidence or historical record of any character's race being altered in this adaptation.
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6.7
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