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Breath of the Dead Forest
The father of seventeen-year-old Alik is arrested for committing a series of brutal murders. The mother takes her son and moves with him to another city. Alik, trying to start a new life and does not suspect that he has become the object of research for Sonya, a graduate student at the Psychological Faculty of the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. While working on his PhD thesis "The influence of genes on the children of serial killers," Alik is a gift of fate for the ambitious, career-oriented Sonya.
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The father of seventeen-year-old Alik is arrested for committing a series of brutal murders. The mother takes her son and moves with him to another city. Alik, trying to start a new life and does not suspect that he has become the object of research for Sonya, a graduate student at the Psychological Faculty of the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. While working on his PhD thesis "The influence of genes on the children of serial killers," Alik is a gift of fate for the ambitious, career-oriented Sonya.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Evgeny Tatarov
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