Character Relationship Map: Under Electric Clouds

Characters

• Sasha (played by Viktoria Korotkova) — supporting

  Sasha is mentioned in connection with a possible marriage within the wealthy family's disputes over inheritance and the unfinished project.

• Danya (played by Viktor Bugakov) — supporting

  Danya is involved in a darkly comic storyline concerning Russia, literature, and exile.

• Karim (played by Karim Pakachakov) — supporting

  Karim is called for help when a frightened child waits for an absent father near the end of the film.

• Valya (played by Chulpan Khamatova) — supporting

  Valya becomes involved in the frantic search for a missing girl, amid demands for money, drug use, confusion, and talk of war and geography.

• Uncle Boris (played by Piotr Gąsowski) — supporting

  Uncle Boris urges the wealthy family not to sell the unfinished project during their dispute over inheritance and its future.

• Marat (played by Konstantin Zeliger) — supporting

  Marat returns to a place associated with his past and is remembered as having been murdered in 1995. With Big gone to Germany and his mother dead, he exists between memory, dreams, and the present.

• Marat's friend (played by Veniamin Kac) — minor

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Uncle Boris → Danya (Family Circle) — Their narrative connection comes from the family's disputes over property, identity, and exile.

  Uncle Boris participates in the wealthy family's disputes over inheritance and the unfinished project, while Danya is included in the same broader fam...

• Uncle Boris → Sasha (Family Circle) — They are connected through the wealthy family's inheritance and marriage-related concerns.

  The plot places Uncle Boris and Sasha within the wealthy family's inheritance storyline. Uncle Boris argues about the unfinished project, while Sasha...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Sasha → Danya (Social Connection) — Their connection is part of the film's overlapping social and family narratives.

  Sasha and Danya are both introduced within the film's interwoven family and exile material, with Sasha linked to a possible marriage and Danya linked...

• Valya → Karim (Alliance Search Associate) — Both are associated with efforts to respond to the disappearance and its aftermath.

  Valya becomes involved in the frantic search for the missing girl, while Karim is later called for help in connection with the unresolved crisis.

• Marat → Marat's friend (Social Friend) — Marat's friend is connected to the memories surrounding Marat's past.

  Marat returns to a place from his past and speaks with people who remember him. The plot specifically identifies one of these connected figures as Mar...

• Marat's friend → Marat (friend)

Story Analysis

Interwoven stories of exile, historical memory, institutional decline, and unresolved human displacement gather around an unfinished building.

Plot Progression

1. Strangers Beneath Change — The film introduces historical change, social exclusion, and the unfinished building as a symbolic center. An isolated immigrant receives fragile assistance while remaining separated by language and b...
2. Inheritance Among Ruins — A wealthy family disputes inheritance and the future of the unfinished project. Sasha and Danya are connected to marriage, literature, Russia, and exile as the characters move through abandoned cultur...
3. Marat Between Times — Marat returns to a place associated with his past and encounters memories of his supposed murder. His story becomes suspended between dreams, death, personal history, and the present.
4. Institutions Losing Ground — The museum faces failures, storms, attempted break-ins, and possible loss of funding. Historical research remains unfinished while Gleb questions whether online lives belong to reality or fiction.
5. The Search Without Answers — A girl's disappearance generates ransom demands and a chaotic search involving Valya. Drug use, debt, war, and geography blur the search's direction and emotional logic.
6. The Unfinished Sky — The building's supporters and potential buyers imagine incompatible futures for it, while the architect's failed suicide attempt deepens its tragic history. A frightened child waits for an absent fath...