included · Causal Loop
Mirror for a Hero
Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.
Drama, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Causal Loop.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Both men repeatedly relive May 8, 1949 while meeting parents or their own younger self before breaking the loop.
Two men repeatedly experience the same day in 1949. Letterboxd currently labels the film 1988; the supplied record uses 1987.
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The scores
Weighted archive score
high confidence
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 48.19 base × 84.8% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Sergey Koltakov, Ivan Bortnik, Boris Galkin, Feliks Stepun, Natalya Akimova
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