# The Ugly Swans (2006)

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**Original title**: *Гадкие лебеди*
**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Drama
**Directed by**: Konstantin Lopushansky
**Written by**: Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy, Konstantin Lopushansky
**Starring**: Gregory Hlady, Aleksey Kortnev, Leonid Mozgovoy, Rimma Sarkisyan, Olga Samoshina, Aleksandr Tsybulsky

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A troubled novelist joins a UN team investigating a mutant outbreak in a sealed town where his daughter attends a re-education academy. The town’s new rulers have traded emotion for intellect, leaving both outsiders and outcasts in the cold. A chilly allegory about intellectual elitism, carried by a father’s last stand against his own child’s transformation.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, dread, outsider

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