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Certificate 18

Cast Oksana Akinshina Artyom Bogucharsky Elina Benenson Pavel Ponomaryov

Directors Lukas Moodysson

Screenwriters Lukas Moodysson

Running Time 109 minutes

Lilya 4-ever
Lukas Moodysson's brutal social commentary on the neglect and abuse of young people set in the former Soviet Union

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Plot
Sixteen year-old Lilya lives in a grim town somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Abandoned by her mother, she struggles to fend for herself, finding comfort in her friendship with a younger boy, Volodya.

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