| Greenhouse Effect | |
| Director: | Valery Akhadov |
| Music: | Darin Sysoev |
| Cinematography: | Rostislav Pirumov |
| Studio: | Tsentrnauchfilm |
| Distributor: | Pan Terra |
| Runtime: | 93 min. |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
| Gross: | $30 000[1] |
Greenhouse Effect (Russian: Парниковый эффект|Parnikovyy effekt) is a 2005 Russian melodrama film directed by Valery Akhadov. Its premiere took place as part of the competition program of the Kinotavr.[2]
A provincial girl, Rita, is robbed of her suitcase at the station. She is all alone in a foreign bustling city with no papers, no money, and no address for her friend.
Rita is assisted by Ernest, a homeless boy, who is also not needed by an indifferent society.
To help Rita, Ernest robs a store and is arrested. With the money stolen by Ernest, Rita leaves for Greece, where she settles in the house of the deceased grandparents of the Greek, a deceased friend of Ernest, and waits for the release of her friend from the colony.
Greenhouse Effect has grossed $30 000.[1]
Valery Akhadov's film was awarded two awards at the Zlín Film Festival.
As film critic Vasily Koretsky (Time Out Russia): "It is rather embarrassing to watch the development of the platonic romance of a boy and a girl; the acting here resembles an overly intimate allusion to daughter-mothers".[3]
According to Valery Kichin, "Valery Akhadov made a powerful picture of a cold world where there is no social protection, and everyone survives alone, a world that does not need people, is not interested in them. This is our new Russia".[4]
Sergey Kudryavtsev notes: "Perhaps, both the motif of robbery with stabbing, and the departure to a happy land, where Goethe's heroes rushed with inescapable longing, seem like overkill in this urban story" and rates the film 6 out of 10.[5]