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Loveless

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Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears. From TMDB

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  • John Harper @johnharper.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    Last night's movie: THE LOVELESS (1981). The phrase "every frame a painting" definitely applies here.

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  • D.K. Lawhorn - Filmmaker @dklawhorn.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    My second time watching The Loveless this month. I think I might’ve found a new favorite film, y’all. It’s streaming on the Criterion Channel. Go check it out. #FilmSky #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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  • Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    Did I buy some elaborate cap guns just for this video? Yes. Did I buy a Burger King toy of Dr. Arliss Loveless from the 1999 movie Wild Wild West just for this video? Yes. Did I buy a fedora just for this video? Please. I had that already.

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  • Toby H. 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @mezcalhead.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    Today we finally get a track off my favorite Film School album, 2007’s hyper-shoegazey ‘Hideout.’ This one sits right next to Loveless, Nowhere, and Souvlaki as far as developing my interest in the genre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #shoegaze 9. Two Kinds (Hideout, 2007)

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  • Cinema Paradiso @cineparadiso.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    Andrey Zvyagintsev’in 2017 yapımı Loveless, modern Rusya’nın sosyal ve duygusal çöküntüsünü ustalıkla yansıtan bir başyapıt. Film, boşanma sürecindeki bir çiftin, kaybolan oğullarını aramaları sırasında yaşadıkları acıyı ve umutsuzluğu konu alıyor.

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  • Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    On August 7, 1981 The Loveless was screened at the Locarno Film Festival. Here's some Willem Dafoe and Robert Gordon art!

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  • JT Leskinen @[email protected]Mastodon · Oct 8, 2024

    20 and counting albums that have had an impact on who I am. One album a day for 20 days and then some. Might include explanations and reviews, always album covers. In some kind of order, or not Day thirty-nine: My Bloody Valentine Loveless #20albums20days #20albums #MyBloodyValentine #loveless

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  • CultShelf @cultshelf.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2026

    Monty Montgomery as the Cowboy produced several Lynch movies like WILD AT HEART, and co-directed one movie with Kathryn Bigelow, THE LOVELESS, which is definitely a #CultShelf stay tuned…

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  • Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.meBluesky · Aug 22, 2025

    It's #LetterboxdFriday! And I don't honestly know if an HBO crime miniseries counts as a movie for these purposes, but Letterboxd thinks it does, so so be it. tbqh who cares, when it was bookended by The Loveless (biker Willem Dafoe) and Joyland (Pakistani erotic dance theatre). Solid movie week!

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  • toastvira, mistress of the posts @toasty.cxBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    I think Dr. Loveless was less racist tbh And yes, I have seen the entire movie including the scene where he tries to defeat Will Smith with racial slurs while Will tries to defeat him with ableist ones lmao

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  • The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.comBluesky · May 19, 2026

    Zvyagintsev, director of the acclaimed films "Leviathan" and "Loveless," was left in a coma and unable to walk for a year after an extreme reaction to Russia's Sputnik V vaccine in 2021.

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  • Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 27, 2025

    I haven't seen a movie blow itself up like this since the camera picked up a woman in the Russian movie Loveless and as with that movie I'm pretty disturbed, which I guess is a compliment

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  • jeremy ꩜ @nothingistrue.netBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    Been a while since I’ve been able to catch up with my film watch list, these were all pretty good though. Fresh (2022) ***½ The Kid Detective (2020) ***½ Alien Romulus (2024) ***½ The Loveless (1981) **** #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #film

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  • Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    Or if you are in the mood to lie on the floor in despair LOVELESS 📽️ is a very good bleak af movie (and I want someone to discuss the restaurant scene with)

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  • Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    I think the “they needed a dick stand-in for Dafoe in Antichrist because his dick was so distractingly enormous” is funny because he has a nude scene in the first movie he ever did (the Loveless) it’s artfully obscured for the most part, but you get like a frame of him flipping out of bed haha

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  • Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND) @mysteriousz.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    Loveless is probably one of the most hilarious things about the movie and it's mostly because his racism borders of being Wakka/Frieza at times with how utterly cartoony it gets

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  • chris @yrpalchris.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2025

    The Loveless, biker movie debut of both Kathryn Bigelow and future Mulholland Drive cowboy Monty Montgomery (sharing writing and directing credits), starring Willem Dafoe, leaving Criterion at the end of the month; 82 minutes of pure vibes, not Scorpio Rising but not a million miles away at times

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  • Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    On August 7, 1981, The Loveless was screened at the Locarno Film Festival. Here’s some Robert Gordon and Willem Dafoe art!

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  • Simon Killen @killens.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    Russian film called Loveless depicts a police force openly admitting that they can’t really help find the runaway, but the excellent volunteer group is a better option. Amazing film too.

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  • The Loft Cinema @theloftcinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    SUPPORT LOCAL INDEPENDENT FILM! Loveless - SATURDAY, JUNE 13 AT 7:30PM Free Admission - Tickets Available DAY OF at Box Office! (Dir. by Lilliona Mello, USA, Not Rated) This is a Community Rental by Lilliona Mello. #comingsoon #loveless #tucsonfilm #originalfilm #fyp

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  • Braces Truther @jackoften.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    Favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70's- The Devils 80's- The Loveless 90's- Safe 00's- The Piano Teacher 10's- The Act of Killing 20's- ? not seen shit yet I'd put on par with the others

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  • Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    I had a dream someone proposed to me via text. But it was like a lifelong friendship oath proposal like in Loveless and I had to finish reading the text to get to that part, so I was trying to finish reading but had to finish watching old movie clips they sent first and I woke up and will never know

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  • Megan Frampton 🤷🏻‍♀️ @meganf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2025

    We saw The Loveless, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Willem Dafoe in his debut. An intensified biker movie with a fantastic ending and great music by Robert Gordon, who also starred.

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  • Lee from the Internet @theinternetslee.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    Sorry everyone but my new sexuality is Marin Kanter with a gun Anyway, big recommendation for The Loveless, it was a surprisingly good movie to chill out to

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  • Something Pete Milan This Way Comes @petemilan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2026

    That movie did Dr. Loveless so dirty. On the show, he was an erudite genius, a worthy opponent, a villain you'd like to see win. Instead we got a Confederate creep in a giant spider.

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  • Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2026

    Loveless is a brilliant film. A harsh and unpleasant film to watch, but shot-through brilliance. A perfect piece of winter cinema.

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  • Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2026

    I think Loveless is a film that hates its characters and spends 2 hours indicting them. The way it presents Maryana Spivak is startling, it is so against how mothers are usually presented. I guess it could play as misogyny, as the father (Aleksey Rozin) is given a much easier time at least initially

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  • The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    Willem Dafoe stars as a sensitive leader of a midwest biker gang in Kathryn Bigelow & Monty Montgomery’s stylish feature debut THE LOVELESS. Our tribute to the award winning director, Right Here Right Now!: The Films of Kathryn Bigelow, continues on Sun Feb 8. paristheaternyc.com/film/the-lov...

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  • drewsky @torutrussardi.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    Oof busy week leading into a busy weekend meant I only watched 3…magnolia was something else tho, I really waited too long to watch PTA’s best stuff. The Loveless basically what I expected, mostly a fun mood piece worth watching just for Defoe(his first movie role!)

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  • Mel 🦝 @melodyraver.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2025

    Today's first movie was The Loveless. And while the plot was pretty meh to me, I did get to stare at a young Willem Dafoe be eyecandy for the entire film. And I'm stealing screenshots for Max tbh. Its not a complete loss.

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  • Alder Cheems @aldercheems.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2025

    You seen "The Loveless"? Almost feels like a David Lynch film.

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  • blessedhawk70.bsky.social @blessedhawk70.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    Glad you pointed out the actor playing Dr. Kiss was on STAR TREK! His name was Michael Dunn, and his most famous role was Dr. Miguelito Loveless on THE WILD WILD WEST. He also starred in the 1965 movie SHIP OF FOOLS. Very good actor.

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  • Darrin aka Bundy @dkbundy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Which movie or TV bad guy would you love to see more of? 🖤 The original Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless from "The Wild, Wild West" portrayed by the brilliant Michael Dunn. Unfortunately, sadly, he is no longer with us.

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  • Eric Janssen @ericjanssen.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2026

    I remember seeing an early unverified IMDb cast listing Warwick Davis as Dr. Loveless, to stay in line with actual TV canon. Consider everything Barry Sonnenfeld’s need to remake MIB and his Superman movie stole from us. 😡

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  • WomanToday @womantoday.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2026

    2/ Bigelow made her directorial film debut with the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1981). She became the first woman to receive an Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker.

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  • Lily and Generoso (plasticgrapes) @plasticgrapes.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2026

    Our warmest congratulations to director Andrey Zvyagintsev for his Grand Prix win at Cannes today for his first feature in nine years, Minotaur (Минотавр)! A lovely man and great filmmaker, we spoke with Andrey back in 2017 when his film Loveless played at AFI Fest! ink19.com/2017/12/maga...

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  • notenzumgeräusch @notesonnoise.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    Zvyagintsev pulls it off again, 9 years after Loveless www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

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  • yung gribble @scumsuck.comBluesky · May 10, 2026

    [Karaoke Iko (2024) movie review: i just kept hollering holy shit how did this get a live action adaptation. This is a weird AU of Loveless where an old dude is hitting on a middle schooler.] 40 year old yakuza makes a middle school boy teach him how to sing, to the point that the other kids […]

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  • JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    Yes, @wilsonjettone.bsky.social mentioned that it’s premiering at Cannes. Hopefully it’ll screen at the London Film Fest later this year. I saw LOVELESS there a few years ago, and AZ came over for a Q&A.

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  • TJ D. @dallasshaldune.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2026

    Rewatching one of my absolute favorites: Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild. The moment when he shifts the lighting, the Feelies go from playing “Fame” to “Loveless Love,” and Ray Liotta first appears—film alchemy, baby!

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  • Torontoplex @torontoplex.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2026

    Plus - Shakespeare riff SHE'S THE MAN via Hold Up and MINORITY REPORT 16mm at Revue, A CINDERELLA STORY slumber party and Bigelow co-directed THE LOVELESS at Fox, Sciamma's PETITE MAMAN at Alliance Francaise, doc POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS at Power Plant, Canadian Film Fest continues at Scotia. #toRep

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  • Crow T. Robot @crooowtrobot.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2026

    Took me way too long to listen to that. There's a scene in the Springsteen movie where he is listening to the band Suicide and Loveless does what Suicide (the band) did to him. There's something about the push, the weight, the warbling, the layers, the dissonance that is extremely comforting.

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  • DVP @dvpdoes.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    I saw WWW in theaters. There’s almost nothing memorable about that movie outside of Branagh’s performance. He owns the role of Loveless.

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  • Harvey @har.vey.devBluesky · Feb 20, 2026

    Yes, I know different roles have different requirements so you can't compare every film. He's done a lot of films though and some are similar to his role in The Loveless. I'm sure you can find similarities between this and The Lighthouse but I'll save that analysis for another time.

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  • RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2026

    The Loveless was basically an art school student version of the outlaw biker film The Wild One, with Willem Dafoe in his first credited role. Near Dark is still my favorite vampire movie.

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  • Brian Bowe @brian-bowe.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2026

    NEW BLOG POST 📽️ Actor RICHARD MCWILLIAMS has appeared on Fair City, Vikings and was recently nominated Best Actor and at the 15th Underground Cinema Film Awards. The last time he cried in a movie theatre? Andrei Zvyagintsev’s 2017 searing drama LOVELESS 👉 reelfeels.substack.com/p/crying-at-...

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  • Kill-i Nyx [BJFA] 🏳️‍⚧️🔆🏳️‍⚧️ @lilinyx.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    The villain from the Wild Wild West movie, a butthurt Confederate engineer named Dr. Loveless

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  • to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2025

    This reminds me btw — have you ever seen The Loveless? It's Kathryn Bigelow's first movie, and her gaze looks *very* much like the early 80s gay male gaze.

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  • Rhys 🦇🎃🐈‍⬛ @digirhys.artBluesky · May 21, 2025

    This guy is such a fucking loser I stg I am a huge BL fan too! I met my partner bc of BL!! I HAVE IN FACT. NAMED MYSELF. AFTER A BL CHARACTER!!!!! But well n truly fuck this asshole lmao If I could've directly caused the movie to do worse I would have, it was such a shameless, LOVELESS cash grab.

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  • 🥞That Browncoat 🥞 @thatbrowncoat.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    The Last time I saw a movie this Loveless, it had to of been “what have you done to Solange?” #FFB🤘 #FFBMovieNight📽️ #GangDoesGiallo🥃🔪 #MonochromeCreeps🎞️

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  • Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2024

    I know very little 21st Century cinema. You’ll have to recommend me some. Do you like Zvyagintsev? Loveless is the bleakest film I’ve ever seen I think.

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  • Christianham @christianham.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2024

    Just looked up the DP: Mikhail Krichman, who worked on Zvyagintsev's LEVIATHAN and LOVELESS. So *of course* I loved this film! (See my Zvyagintsev love, and especially my love of LOVELESS, which I also saw at [drumroll please] Middleburg, on that other platform.) Don't think it's fest-best though.

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  • Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.comBluesky · Jul 11, 2024

    Lost in winter: Andrey Zvyagintsev's chilly domestic apocalypse LOVELESS (NELYUBOV, 2017) is "a film of empty spaces and aching absences". On BFI Player from today. Highly recommended. projectedfigures.com/2019/02/16/l...

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  • G's Inevitable Flash Sideways @gennisaisquoi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2024

    Omg, I need to see this! I'm obsessed with Dafoe's 2nd film, The Loveless, which is also biker gang themed. (Young Willem Dafoe is for anyone who ever secretly wanted to be James Dean but couldn't bring themselves to romanticize the 1950s.)

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  • kiril @orcflorist.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2024

    i mean, considering the other film we watched together was the russian drama Loveless, it's only fair that we watched something schlocky after something so self serious

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  • Kirthan @lilghost.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2023

    Every sound and influence I heard on the new Hozier album: The Beatles, The Pixies, shoegaze, grunge, Nina Simone, Radiohead, late 80s movie soundtracks, Grizzly Bear, Just The Two Of Us, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, Loveless, epic film scores.

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  • Jeremy Harris @fullmetal1986.xboxplaydates.orgBluesky · Sep 17, 2026

    Dr. Loveless from the Wild Wild West film getting his own land in his plot to divide the United States. But Trump.

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  • ElRoi @elroi1.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    One of, if not the greatest actors of not just his generation, but of all time. The Loveless was not only Willem's first feature film, but the first from director Kathryn Bigelow. A great film that I have been unable to find streaming anywhere other than YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qSW...

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  • ElRoi @elroi1.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2026

    One of, if not the greatest actors of not just his generation, but of all time. The Loveless was not only Willem's first feature film, but the first from director Kathryn Bigelow. A great film that I have been unable to find streaming anywhere other than YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qSW...

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  • 𝔽𝕀ℝ𝕊𝕋 ℂ𝕃𝔸𝕊𝕊 ℤ𝔸ℂ𝕂 (SH) @honoredsoldier.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Zack sat patientily, gently squeezing at Aerith's hand as the story unfolded. It sounded weird, bizarre and like something out of some kinda movie Kunsel and the guys would talk about it. Almost as convoluted as Genesis' LOVELESS play he always went on about. Still, Zack was worried about her and -

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Zhenya
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Aleksey Rozin
Boris
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Alyosha
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Alexey Fateev
Coordinator
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Masha
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Anton
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