Yara (2021): An Unfocused True Crime Narrative
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
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The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beginning of the century... Tanya, a girl from the neighborhood, accidentally finds herself in the doctor's house, where she first encounters the mysterious world of science...
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The protagonist of the film is a female microbiologist and inventor of penicillin. The discovery of this life-saving drug was preceded by many years of scientific research, which Dr. Lebedev conducted in his laboratory in a small provincial town at the beginning of the century... Tanya, a girl from the neighborhood, accidentally finds herself in the doctor's house, where she first encounters the mysterious world of science...
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Natalya Ryazantseva, Veniamin Kaverin
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Runtime:186 minutes
Studio:Lenfilm
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