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Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
2014, Russia, 140 min
(Russian with English subtitles)
The latest epic drama from director Andrey Zvyagintsev unfolds like a 1,000 page novel. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes last year, the film is the story of Kolia who lives in Northern Russia. The town’s corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, as well as his land, but Kolia unflinchingly fights as hard as he can so as not to lose everything he owns including the beauty that has surrounded him since the day he was born. Andrey has described the film as a loose retelling of the Book of Job as an ordinary man must wrestle with his faith not in God but in the Russian state – an epic struggle against a monster with many faces possessed of the capacity to bend the law to suit its own appetites. Resistance is futile, as they say, and yet this stunning satire’s embattled patriarch valiantly perseveres for the sake of his family, even as it crumbles around him.
