The Ugly Swans (film)

The Ugly Swans
Directed byKonstantin Lopushansky
Written byKonstantin Lopushansky
Vyacheslav Rybakov
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (novel)
Produced byCatherine Dussart
Dmitry Gerbachevsky
Andrey Sigle
StarringCatherine Dussart
Gregory Hlady
CinematographyVladislav Gurtchin
Edited byMaxim Holodiuk
Sergei Obukhov
Aleksandr Zaretzky
Music byAndrey Sigle
Distributed byProline Film
Release date
  • October 19, 2006 (2006-10-19)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

The Ugly Swans (Russian: Гадкие лебеди) is a 2006 Russian science fiction drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky, based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The film is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, also adapted from a Strugatsky book.[1][2]