Cast

Hryhoriy Fesenko Yana Novikova Rosa Babiy Oleksandr Dsiadevych Yaroslav Biletskiy Ivan Tishko

Credits

Written by: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi

Plot

A deaf teenager, Sergey, enters a boarding school for the deaf in Ukraine, where a gang controls the students with crime and violence, and he falls in love with a girl who is forced into prostitution, in a film in sign language with no subtitles.

Sinekatalog’s take

A brutal, daring and unforgettable film in sign language.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (12,806 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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