The Russian Woodpecker

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Movie Info

A Ukrainian survivor of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and has to decide to risk his life by revealing it.

Genre:

war, documentary
Original Language:

Russian
Director:

Chad Gracia
Producer:

Ram Devineni, Mike Lerner
Writer:

Chad Gracia
Release Date (Theaters):

Oct 16, 2015 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 18, 2016
Runtime:

1h 21m

Cast & Crew

Fedor Alexandrovich

Chad Gracia
Director

Chad Gracia
Writer

Jeff Roth
Executive Producer

Ram Devineni
Producer

Mike Lerner
Producer

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Critic Reviews for The Russian Woodpecker

All Critics (25) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (1)

Gripping conspiracy thriller, pretentious art biopic, timely political documentary -- 'The Russian Woodpecker' is all this and more.

November 19, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Tom Huddleston
Time Out
An investigative political documentary with a lion heart and a funny bone.

November 19, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Sophie Monks Kaufman
Little White Lies
Provocative, spooky and just a little nutty.

October 29, 2015 | Full Review…

Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
Alexandrovich's ideas are poised to be embraced by a wide swatch of conspiracy theorists as this film continues to be discovered and debated.

October 16, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Matt Fagerholm
RogerEbert.com
Mr. Gracia's messily structured film works best as a document of fear in today's Ukraine and as a kind of ghost story about the Soviet Union.

October 15, 2015 | Full Review…

Nicolas Rapold
New York Times
The Russian Woodpecker is only valuable as entertainment, though the absence of any equivalent to the Zapruder film or allegedly suspicious NASA photos means there's not much visual interest.

October 15, 2015 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Mike D'Angelo
AV Club
Stark and surreal, farcical and fearful, The Russian Woodpecker is an electrifying film about Cold War legacies that becomes frighteningly topical when viewed through the lens of European current affairs.

May 8, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Phil W. Bayles
One Room With A View
The Russian Woodpecker is an arresting, thought-provoking and seismically important creation...

April 8, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Matthew Anderson
CineVue
The relationship between the Soviet Union and Ukraine takes on almost unbelievable twists and turns in this film.

August 16, 2017 | Full Review…

Dorothy Woodend
The Tyee (British Columbia)
This assertive film reaches out beyond just the usual folks who take to conspiracy theories.

March 8, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
An unexpectedly compelling political thriller.

February 22, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

John Fink
The Film Stage
A documentary with no easy antecedents, The Russian Woodpecker is at once a glance inside a wondrous mind, a journey back into the twisted mire of the Cold War and an experience that can't stop provoking questions.

February 20, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

David Berry
National Post

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