Killed by Lightning
An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.
- Year: 2002
- Country: Russia
- Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
- Studio: CTB Film Company, The Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation, Fondazione MonteCinemaVerità Locarno, Hubert Bals Fund, Nikola Film
- Keyword: anthropology, evolution, neorealism
- Director: Evgeny Yufit
- Cast: Aleksandr Anikeyenko, Aleksandr Maskalin, Vera Novikova, Olga Semyonova, Elena Simonova, Sergei Chernov