Lyudmila Polyakova’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Lyudmila Polyakova has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Ascent.
Recurring themes

The Road
2009
Adventure · Drama

Lorna's Silence
2008
Crime · Drama

The Child
2005
Drama

The Pianist
2002
Drama · War

Stop-Loss
2008
Drama · War

Frozen River
2008
Drama · Crime

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009
Drama · War

Shotgun Stories
2007
Drama · Thriller

During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Dir. Larisa Shepitko · With Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison.
Dir. Igor Zaytsev · With Sergey Bezrukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Alyona Babenko
A black BMW, a symbol of luxury, is racing along the night streets of Moscow in the 90s. Bad luck turns four friends into criminals and they have no way back. Only the black “bimmer” is reliable in this life without rules, taking the friends farther and farther from Moscow, into the crazy and ruthless wilderness of Russian roads… None of them wanted to kill. None of them wanted to die. But they will have to face their destiny in the end.
Dir. Pyotr Buslov · With Sergey Gorobchenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Andrey Merzlikin