The Black Hen, or Living Underground (1981) on Netflix
NR19811h 14mDramaFamilyFantasy
Alyosha Lanskoy, ten, used to his parents' attention, starts at a St. Petersburg boarding school. Homesick, he imagines an underground world with a king and subjects resembling those around him.
- Watch on NetflixThis title is not on Netflix right now. Please check back later for updates.
- Watch on NordVPN
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb6.0/10138 votes
- Rotten TomatoesNot available
Plot summary
Alyosha Lanskoy is ten years old when he arrives at a boarding school in St. Petersburg, where the habitual parental attention he grew up with is gone. Missing his home, he creates an imaginary magic world of underground dwellers, ruled by a king whose subjects closely resemble the people around him. That world has a secret, and in the fairy tale he builds Alyosha lives through many adventures.
Cast
- Anton Artyomenko
Show all 15 cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Black Hen, or Living Underground (1981)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The whole film was shot by cinematographers Vladimirov and Stepanov on DS-5 negative stock with "DDZ", an added measured pre-exposure before the main exposure — a form of latensification Soviet cameramen used to compensate for the poor colour reproduction of domestic film stock when imported film could not be used.
