What Is It to Breathe?
2021, Russian. Directed by Alexandr Elkan.
Usually people don't think about how they breathe. But try to hold your breath for five seconds. Ten. Fifteen. Is it hard? And how do those who have to fight for every breath live? The film tells about the life of people with the most common rare genetic disease of cystic fibrosis. About 3,500 people with this diagnosis live in Russia. Only a quarter of them will live to be 18 years old.
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- 0h 37m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 9 March 2021
- Original title
- А что такое дышать?
- Country
- Russia
- Written by
- Alexandr Elkan
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What Is It to Breathe? runs 37 minutes (0h 37m).
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What Is It to Breathe? isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 9 March 2021. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed What Is It to Breathe??
What Is It to Breathe? (2021) was directed by Alexandr Elkan.