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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel A.K.A. "Hukkunud Alpinisti" hotell, Отель "У погибшего альпиниста" (1979)

A Soviet Estonian mystery directed by Grigori Kromanov.
An inspector is called to a hotel in a snowy, mountainous area. When he gets there, the owner says that he did not call. Unable to leave immediately because of weather and road conditions, the inspector stays at the hotel and meets the strange guests. Strange things then occurr, like a man strangling a copy of himself, cryptic messages, missing people, hidden guns and a supposed murder. The inspector tries to figure out what is going on.
Very strange. It almost looked like it was supposed to be an art film. There were tons of shots with only back lighting so people had glowing auras. It also looked more like 1969 than 1979, but that's just Soviet film technology. The plot was vague and not clearly presented. It could have made better use of fewer characters than it made poor use of many characters. There was tons of audio dead air noise, but again, Soviet film technology. I rate this tolerable. If you really want to watch it, be sure you know what it is.

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