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In Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.In Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.In Moscow, a young woman disappears after falling in love with a new man.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 15 nominations
Anastasiya Dontsova
- Young Alisa
- (as Nastya Dontsova)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaRussia's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign-Language Film category.
- Quotes
Alisa Titova: Why would anyone need a property on the moon?
Aleksandr Viktorovich 'Sasha': To have somewhere to escape.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
- SoundtracksOdin telefonnyy zvonok
Written and performed by Lera Masskva
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A fantastic modern fable
Mermaid is an awesomely bizarre tale of a strange girl called Alisa, who, as a little girl, lives by the beach with her comically grotesque mother and grandmother and pines for her father to come and rescue her . Later on in her life she is forced to confront reality when she travels to Moscow with her family, and as a teenager, finds out all about all the wonders of the world, including love, jobs and friendship, all seen through an impossibly optimistic and offbeat sensibility. Mermaid plays like the second coming of Amelie, and everything about it is utterly charming; the fantastically upbeat, jazzy score, the dreamy cinematography tinged with realism, the quirky scenarios, but mostly the utterly charismatic and awesome central performances from the two girls playing Alisa, who like Audrey Tatou before them, will make you fall in love. Alisa is such an endearingly odd character, charmingly offbeat and naive, while remaining startlingly independent and fierce. A last act stumble provoked by a tangle of superfluous characters dampens the charm of the film somewhat,and it meanders in parts, but on the whole Mermaid is an almost note-perfect film that will leave you with a dreamy smile on your face and a longing for days of lost innocence.
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- newtt11
- Jun 26, 2008
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,700,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,431,983
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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