THE BOARDING HOUSE
NEW GOTHIC HORROR SERIES
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| Boarding House is streaming from November 1st |
STORY OF THE SERIES IS SET
in
the Russian Empire, 1905. The general's daughter Apollinaria (Stasya
Miloslavskaya) arrives on an island in the Baltic Sea, on which there is
a boarding house for women cut off from the world, run by a strict
mentor 
Zakharova (Victoria Tolstoganova). It is not immediately clear
what kind of mysterious institution Madame opened - a boarding school
for young ladies or a hospital-prison for objectionable daughters who
wealthy men want to re-
educate. Five pupils spend the whole day praying,
cooking, cleaning, washing and working in the garden, sometimes being
distracted by gloomy studies - a mixture of fine arts and patriarchal
lectures about the true destiny of women. 
Their only fun is a fresh
volume of Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil", but it is not clear where it
came from on the island as Zakharova considers books to be vulgar and
useless entertainment. It soon turns out that in fact Apollinaria
arrived to find her sister Sophia, who disappeared without a trace from
the boarding house a year ago. The girl quickly realizes that Zakharova
encourages violence, and a toxic atmosphere has formed in the team:
during the break
between classes, the girls hate, bully, humiliate and
harass each other, trying to give vent to suppressed emotions and sexual
desires. Moreover, soon the girls begin to go absolutely aggressively
crazy one after another. The first to 
get possessed is Anya (Ekaterina
Novokreshenova), who is in love with the local retarded gardener Serafim
(Dmitry Chebotarev). First, she seduces the man with enthusiasm unusual
for her, and then, having received a 
cruel flogging from Zakharova, she
runs away from the boarding house. Having found Anya's lifeless corpse
on the seashore with signs of a violent death, Polina realizes that
anything could have happened to her sister on the cursed island.
Zakharova (Victoria Tolstoganova). It is not immediately clear
what kind of mysterious institution Madame opened - a boarding school
for young ladies or a hospital-prison for objectionable daughters who
wealthy men want to re-
educate. Five pupils spend the whole day praying,
cooking, cleaning, washing and working in the garden, sometimes being
distracted by gloomy studies - a mixture of fine arts and patriarchal
lectures about the true destiny of women. 
Their only fun is a fresh
volume of Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil", but it is not clear where it
came from on the island as Zakharova considers books to be vulgar and
useless entertainment. It soon turns out that in fact Apollinaria
arrived to find her sister Sophia, who disappeared without a trace from
the boarding house a year ago. The girl quickly realizes that Zakharova
encourages violence, and a toxic atmosphere has formed in the team:
during the break
between classes, the girls hate, bully, humiliate and
harass each other, trying to give vent to suppressed emotions and sexual
desires. Moreover, soon the girls begin to go absolutely aggressively
crazy one after another. The first to 
get possessed is Anya (Ekaterina
Novokreshenova), who is in love with the local retarded gardener Serafim
(Dmitry Chebotarev). First, she seduces the man with enthusiasm unusual
for her, and then, having received a 
cruel flogging from Zakharova, she
runs away from the boarding house. Having found Anya's lifeless corpse
on the seashore with signs of a violent death, Polina realizes that
anything could have happened to her sister on the cursed island.
