Plot synopsis

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen.

Commentaries

Cinema of the Strugatskys: a history of the Soviet sci-fi legends on screen, from Tarkovsky to Sokurov, Sam GOFF, klassiki.online, 2025

Вечная классика: знаменитые экранизации произведений братьев Стругацких [Classiques éternels : adaptations cinématographiques célèbres des œuvres des frères Strougatski], domkino.tv, 2024

Neuf films soviétiques sur les extraterrestres à regarder en ligne gratuitement, Dmitri VOLTCHEK, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2024

Между утопией и антиутопией, kommersant.ru, 2023

Все экранизации братьев Стругацких [Toutes les adaptations cinématographiques des frères Strougatski], dzen.ru, 2022

Grigori Komarov – L’Auberge de l’Alpiniste mort (1979), Russkayafantastika, 2019

Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2026

- Baltic Soviet films, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

- Adaptations of Works by the Strugatsky Brothers, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025

- The conquest of space in Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2018

- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2012

- Copenhagen International Film Festival / CPH PIX, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2011

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