The Abandoned Page #4

Synopsis: In 1966, somewhere in Russia, a wounded woman drives a truck to an isolated farm with two babies. Forty years later, the film producer Marie Jones leaves her daughter in California and travels back to her home land in the wilderness of Russia. Marie is one of the children and had received a phone call from the notary public Andrei Misharin, who told her where the farm of her family is located. Marie arrives at the abandoned house and meets the stranger Nicolai, who tells her that he had also received a call from Misharin and he is her twin brother. Weird things happen in the house and Marie and Nicolai are haunted by zombie-like ghosts of themselves. Further, they find that they are trapped in the house and can not leave the place.
Director(s): Nacho Cerdà
Production: Lionsgate Films/Afterdark Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
R
Year:
2006
99 min
£1,255,524
Website
80 Views


I saw the past.

Mama.

Marie?

Marie.

Don't go any farther.

What is this place?

- Do you really want to know?

- Yes, I really want to know.

We were supposed to die

in this house in '66.

Now our father is going

to get his wish.

Our father?

Yeah, Kolya Kaidanovsky,

the man you saw upstairs.

At midnight everything

will be recreated as it was

on the night of the murders.

Only this time, we'll die

as we were always meant to.

We'll become our destinies,

our doppelgangers.

We don't have much time.

What is that?

Let's get out of here.

So, how do you want to spend

your last few minutes?

Ever been to Disneyland?

You have a daughter, don't you?

Yeah. Emily.

I guess I'm here

because of her.

What do you mean?

Well...

I watch her grow up every day

and...

I know that eventually

she'll walk away,

live a life of her own.

I'm frightened.

Of what?

Being alone.

Dying.

I thought it would

make me feel better,

but it doesn't.

Having a child, I mean.

How about you?

There must be someone out there.

Natalya.

I did a matching design

for her many years ago.

And now, I'm afraid

to touch another woman.

She said that she...

She said, "You have

come back from hell."

"I'll save you."

But she couldn't.

She left me.

I guess this is it.

It's not over.

It stopped.

What are you doing?

Mother of God.

It's her.

It's our mother.

It's all going to happen again.

- Just like before.

- Marie?

- What?

- You're back in '66.

The truck.

The truck in the pig sty.

It might work.

Hey.

Come on!

That's him.

That's our father.

Nicolai, we've got

to do something.

There's nothing we can do.

What do you mean?

We're just going to stand by...

Nicolai, we can't stand by

and let him go upstairs

- and f***ing kill her.

- It's too late.

Hey, come on.

We can get the truck now.

- No!

- Come on!

Oh, sh*t.

Leave us alone,

you son of a b*tch!

It's all been done.

You can't stop it.

Yeah, but maybe

we can change it!

It was all over

- Stop hurting her!

- It's not real!

- Yeah, the f*** that isn't real!

- Stop. We've got to get the truck.

We've got to get the truck.

You must go if you want to live.

Go!

Go!

Go! Run!

Run!

Natalya.

Motherf***er!

Papa.

I'm so sorry this happened.

I gave your mother

everything I could...

a life...

a home.

When she tried to take

my children away from me,

to take you away...

to break the circle...

It wasn't easy

bringing us back together,

but it was worth it, you know,

just to see you again.

You belong with me

and the family...

at home.

No!

Why, God?

Mr. Misharin?

Please.

I thought your birthday

would be a suitable time.

You know...

I was your age

when she killed me.

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Karim Hussain

Karim Hussain (born July 16, 1974 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian screenwriter, director and cinematographer. He is best known for his 2000 film Subconscious Cruelty, and as co-writer of Nacho Cerdà's The Abandoned. In 2006, he adapted French-Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais' work, La Belle Bête. For it, he won the Director's Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival. more…

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