Echo-Request

Facts

Year

2014

Runtime

44m (44 min)

Format

Feature pilot · Post-apocalypse

Genres

Post-apocalypseSci-fiSurvivalFeature pilotIndependentUkrainian cinema

Language

Russian

Location

Ukraine

Director

Sasha Poberailo

IMDb

tt4137264

Versions · 2

One title, 2 circulating cuts — not separate films. Cite the cut when discussing runtime or completeness.

• YouTube · beta music

  YouTube · бета-музика

  Catalogue primary

  44m · 2014 · YouTube · available

  Public pilot cut (43:49) titled «Постапокалипсис фильм „Эхо-Запрос“» on channel Sasha Poberailo. Description lists Atomic Cafe pilot, beta-music version, full RU/EN plot blurb, cast and crew. This is the cut used for catalogue runtime and the site Watch embed. Same story spine as the project’s vault pilot — not a separate film title.

  Публічна пілотна версія ~43:49 на YouTube (бета-музика). Основна для runtime каталогу й кнопки «дивитись». Той самий пілот «Атомного кафе», не окремий фільм.

  Open YouTube→

• Vimeo archive

  Архів Vimeo

  2014 · Vimeo · limited

  Alternate host listed on legacy WordPress posts for the same Atomic Cafe / Echo-Request pilot. Prefer YouTube for embed reliability; treat Vimeo as archive mirror, not a second film.

  Альтернативний хост з архіву WP. Для вбудовування краще YouTube; Vimeo — дзеркало, не другий фільм.

  Open Vimeo→

Themes

• Beta cut as public master

  The circulating YouTube file is explicitly a “beta-music” pilot — catalogue should cite this cut’s runtime (≈44 min) and not invent a longer unreleased feature without evidence.

• Empire as ghost

  Nuclear war erases the USSR and the other superpower; what remains is architectural and terminal residue (bunker labels, Soviet-style console chrome) rather than living state power.

• Vault as temptation and trap

  Shelter is found, entry deferred, interior becomes corridor / console / hatch drama — safety underground is never free of risk or rewrite.

• Plan vs wasteland chance

  Release logline: in the wasteland you cannot predict anything. Campfire talk and careful approach collapse when force (raiders / violence) rewrites the day.

• Anti-Stalker local myth (with genre tags)

  Upload tags court Stalker/Fallout/Metro audiences, but production notes push a non-Zone Ukrainian wasteland imaginary — DIY ruins and woods instead of licensed lore.

• Analogue future / dead interfaces

  On-screen terminal «Искра 5654» / «ГУОН-12» green text turns Soviet computing aesthetic into post-apoc diegetic tech — echo of systems that no longer serve living users.

Characters

• OlegLead wanderer

  Max Lavrinenko

  Named in the official RU/EN description as one of two wasteland travellers. Leather/jacket survival kit, backpack walks through grey woods and rubble; participates in vault approach, interior tension, and the film’s physical endgame.

• Yang (Ян)Lead wanderer

  Kostya Chernysh

  Partner on the road in the release synopsis (spelled Yang / Ян; actor card Kosta Chenysh / Костя Черныш). Shares the vault discovery and the forced change of plan — same hinge of fear, curiosity, and contingency.

• Woman in the field (Maria)Supporting

  Maria Kuznetsova

  Early live-action beat: close-up of a young woman in a knit beanie among dry grass — tense, wide-eyed look that breaks the empty-landscape register. Cast card lists Maria Kuznetsova among the ensemble; treat spoken name on-screen as primary if it differs.

• Children (ensemble)Supporting

  Sofia Kuznetsova, Ulyana Kuznetsova

  End-credit card «дети» names Sofia and Ulyana Kuznetsova — next-generation presence in the Atomic Cafe world, not the road-pair leads.

• Wasteland / vault ensembleSupporting

  Anna Karika, Vladimir Ishchenko, Stanislav Yur’evich, Evgen Ostroverkh and others as human weather of ruin, bunker, and raid — faces that thicken the pilot beyond a two-hander.

Scene map

• Prologue · constructivist ghost

  Opening stretch uses stark B&W abstract / theatrical imagery (stairs, platform figures, geometric void) before colour live action — a dream or archival-style overture to empire and form.

• Empty land / water

  Wide misty landscape with water and hills — scale of a world after people, before the close survival grammar begins.

• Face in the grass

  Intimate close-up of a woman in a beanie among dry field grass — human stakes enter the wasteland frame.

• Campfire & tin

  Night fire, boiling metal cup, hooded figure watching flame — heat, food, and talk as the only infrastructure left.

• Wasteland walk

  Backpack figure through bare trees and rubble piles — grey daylight road that delivers the vault problem.

• Vault arch / underground

  Flashlight on stone arch and debris; later bunker corridors with painted room codes (e.g. «Б-7») — architecture of shelter as maze.

• Console «ГУОН-12»

  Green-on-black terminal: «Искра 5654 консольная ЭВМ» / «консоль ГУОН-12» — diegetic computer as relic of the dead state and as plot interface.

• Hatch / knife / ruins

  Body emerging from a concrete hatch; gloved hand with a knife in a dark interior; figures in brick ruins — the plan turns physical and hostile.

• Woods · body on the ground

  Bare winter trees; a man in beanie and leather jacket lies on cold earth — exhaustion or aftermath as the pilot’s closing human image before credits.