Half-Dead, Half-Dead Can't Get Out. Odyssey 1992 (2026)
Полуживой полумёртвый не может выйти. Одиссея 1992
Director: Svyatoslava Sagunova
Cast: Ilya Khotinenko, Svyatoslava Sagunova, Nikita Kologrivyy, Evgeny Koryakovsky, Andrey Merzlikin
Did you know? The actor obsessed with "accuracy" was so committed to the role that he insisted on being buried alive in a replica of a 1992 Yugoslavian bunker, forcing the directors to film his rescue in real-time to keep him from suffocating, a scene that later became the film's only existing footage.
Why Watch: “Half-Dead, Half-Dead Can't Get Out. Odyssey 1992” is a mind-bending meta-thriller that traps you in the blur between documentary and fiction, where a single actor’s obsession with “accuracy” pulls the directors into their own unmade film. It’s an unsettling, hypnotic journey to the edge of life and death that cinephiles and fans of Lynchian surrealism will find impossible to forget. Don’t miss this rare, disorienting gem that turns the very act of filmmaking into a haunting, inescapable odyssey.
Two filmmakers set out to cast a movie set in the 1990s, but the project slowly unravels into a hazy limbo where the line between reality and fabrication blurs. The arrival of one actor fixated on "authenticity" quietly derails their control, pulling them into a spiral of uncertainty. On the threshold between existence and oblivion, the directors ultimately step into the very film they never produced.