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Левиафан, 2014

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Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)

Cast: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Aleksey Rozin, Sergey Pokodaev. Screenplay: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev. Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman. Production design: Andrey Ponkratov. Film editing: Anna Maas. Music: Andrey Dergachev, Philip Glass.

Leviathan was the official Russian entry in the Oscar foreign film category and there was controversy in Russia over its portrayal of the hard-drinking Russians, the corrupt bureaucracy, and the complicit Russian Orthodox Church. It's a truly astonishing film when you consider all of these things, and that the villain of the film, the grasping, criminal major (played to the creepy depths by Roman Madyanov) presides over his malfeasance under a watchful portrait of Vladimir Putin. At one point in the movie, the protagonist, Kolya (Alexey Serebryakov), and his friends engage in some drunken target practice that involves shooting at pictures of Brezhnev, Gorbachev, and other former communist leaders. One of the group says he has pictures of some more recent targets once those are gone. Cynicism and bitterness prevail throughout the film, and with its dark humor and deep-rooted hopelessness it reminds me of hard-core American film noir. Through it all, though, there's the soiled beauty of the Russian landscape, splendidly filmed by Mikhail Krichman. There are some chilling moments, such as the monotone readings of the court's judgment against Kolya in his suit against the mayor and the even more devastating judgment against Kolya at the film's end. And it's heart-wrenching to watch the destruction of Kolya's home from inside, with furnishings that we have come to know from earlier scenes in the movie still in place, being swept away by the jaw of wrecking machine. 

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The Monk and the Demon (2016)

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Левиафан [Leviathan] (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)

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Russian movies – to understand the complex Russian soul

A short list of movies that are a good place to begin your acquaintance with Russian cinematography.

You're unlikely to find them on Netflix, perhaps on third-party sites and not always with subtitles, but either way - Who seeks, always finds.

The Return (2003)

Andrei Zvyagintsev's drama about a returning father, his sons, and a mysterious box.

A prodigal father (Konstantin Lavronenko) returns to a provincial family and takes his two sons on a camping trip to the lake with vague goals. The debut of an unknown director, shot for little money by a minor producer, suddenly won at the Venice Film Festival.

Peculiarities of the national hunt (1995)

The first part of a triptych about harmless hunters.

A young Finn (Ville Haapasalo), eager to learn about Russian hunting habits, joins a company gathered in the woods - but all that awaits them ahead is unabated drunkenness. On the one hand, a collection of hysterically funny anecdotes in the "hunting accident" genre, on the other – a study of the national character, judging by the tremendous popularity of the film, more than successful.

Brother (1997)

Alexei Balabanov's crime drama - iconic image of the 90s.

Dembele Danila Bagrov (Sergei Bodrov) arrives in St. Petersburg to visit his brother (Viktor Sukhorukov), who has become a hired killer. "The player is real, but dressed like a sucker", "Beautiful city, but a province", "I don't really like Jews", and, of course, "You're not my brother, you black-assed scum". What can I say - the main Russian film of the 90s. And together with the sequel, even two.

The Island (2006)

A spiritual drama with Mamonov as a monk.

An eccentric old man (Pyotr Mamonov) heals pilgrims and dreams of redeeming the sin committed during the war. Lungin's slightly unexpected, at the time, incursion into God-seeking territory, establishing Mamonov in his new role as Russia's hero. As part of the restoration of spirituality, the film was carried on its hands, showered with awards and shown on Christmas on the central channel.

Hipsters (Stilyagi) (2008)

Todorovsky's retro-musical about the '50s, with songs from the '80s and '90s.

Moscow of the '50s, a Komsomol member (Anton Shagin) falls in love with a fashionable girl (Oksana Akinshina) and becomes a dandy. A sprawling musical with crowd-pleasers, dances, and an unexpected rendition of twisted '80s rock hits. The box office budget, enormous by Russian standards, did not pay off. On the other hand, the film received wide praise in the West, where it was released under the title Hipsters, and Valery Todorovsky became the leading specialist in Soviet retro films a few years later.

What Men Talk About (2010)

Talking play by Quartet I transferred to the motion picture screen.

Not the first, but one of the most popular films, remade from the plays of Moscow's Quartet I. A brief escape from the office routine in the vein of "Stag in Vegas", the music of Bi-2 (the heroes of the entire movie strive to get to the concert of the band, oddly enough, held in the Ukraine), Zhanna Friske and, of course, sex through the eyes of infantile middle-aged men. The result is a great movie about what men in Russia think and talk about.

Leviathan (2014)

Unwashed Russia and an Oscar nomination.

The story of the confrontation between a car mechanic (Alexei Serebryakov) and the mayor of a northern town (Roman Madyanov), who decided to annex the worker's house, in which he lives with his family: his wife (Elena Lyadova) and son. Another parable by Andrei Zvyagintsev about an unwashed Russia in which he decided to cross an ancient tragedy with a domestic drama, for which he won a Golden Globe, a prize for screenplay at Cannes and a nomination for an Oscar. As is often the case with our sharply social statements, cinema has divided society. Not for the first time and, one would think, not for the last.

Loveless (2017)

Andrei Zvyagintsev's psychological thriller.

A divorcing couple (Maryana Spivak and Alexei Rozin) has a son who disappears (Matvey Novikov). They try their best to find him, but the further they go, the more futile their efforts become. Inspired by Bergman's Scenes from a Family Life, Zvyagintsev has created a psychological thriller in which the missing boy acts not only as a Hitchcockian MacGuffin, around whom the plot revolves, but also as the meaning of life that the characters are so feverishly searching for, because everything mattered only when he was around.

Arrhythmia (2017)

The story of two married doctors who missed the meaning of their relationship.

The most sensual film of Boris Khlebnikov's career, which was applauded so wildly at the festival in Sochi, as if every audience member in the audience had really caught the rhythm of this "Arrhythmia." The simple story of two married doctors who, at some point between their daily exploits at work, miss the meaning of their relationship.

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#854: ‘Leviathan’, dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014.

A lot of the films on this list are epic, and many of those are... swollen: too long, too inflated, and too exaggerated. Leviathan is none of those things, and it’s also one of those rare films that can be described as ‘statuesque’. This is obvious from its opening moments, where we see a string of images of the coast of the corrupt Russian village where the film takes place, any natural noise drowned out by the piercing score composed by Philip Glass. The first line of dialogue is not until five minutes in, and even then it’s terse and devoid of deeper significance - Kolia (Alexei Serebriakov) announcing that he needs a smoke.

The characters in this film are solid statues of human beings, but their interiors are crumbling. Kolia’s land is being bought out from under him by a corrupt mayor (a perfectly and pettily devilish performance by Roman Madyanov), who turns up drunk to threaten him and yet sails through his court proceedings with ease. Despite the urging of Kolia’s second wife, Lilya (Elena Lyadova), Kolia brings in his old friend Dima (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), a lawyer from Moscow, to try and mitigate the ordeal. Dima is thoughtful and courageous, suppressing Kolia’s more violent impulses when he can, but he is still unable to make a dent in Mayor Vadim’s brittle-seeming armour.

What at first seems like a typical story of small man taking on big government is rapidly undercut in a number of small ways, and the end result feels like a contemporary Biblical parable - the book of Job, perhaps, if Job wasn’t a particularly likable individual. The problem for Kolia, Lilya and Dima is that they are individual humans, and because of this they are damned on both an individual and systemic level. Their personal failings - their lust, their anger, and their cowardice - make it impossible to confront their situation in a unified way, and the corrupt legal system is designed to exploit their weaknesses while protecting the myriad weaknesses of those in power. Nobody at the office is authorised to release someone from prison, even for a trumped-up offense. The drunken mayor arrives in a spotless car, protected by a seven-foot-tall bodyguard with a close-shaven head. Even when Vadim is rattled by the amount of incriminating information Dima has been able to gather on him, Vadim has three coldly capable henchmen who have the mayor swaddled in a protective layer.

The system is perhaps at its most monolithic in those moments where Kolia and Dima are in the courtroom. While a typical ‘David-versus-Goliath’ film like The Castle would simply show the verdict, in Leviathan the court’s findings are read in all their impenetrable glory. The legal jargon that everyone hides behind is incomprehensible, and it shows what Zyvagintsev is trying to prove: that unlike in the story of Job, the word of neither man nor god is on Kolia’s side. It’s not enough for the court to reject his appeal; there must be three minutes of meaningless and obfuscatory explanation to rub it all in. The representatives of God in Leviathan are Russian Orthodox bishops, who have their own reasons for continuing Kolia’s suffering too.

Writing about Leviathan at Cannes, Peter Bradshaw suggests that Kolia in this film is not Job, standing in the face of God’s will and trying to draw out the Leviathan with a fishhook, but rather the beached whale that forms the film’s most striking image - a figure with “all the burdensome size but none of the power: massive, inert”.

Leviathan as a film can feel massive and inert, too. It’s tackling a topic that is small on paper but overwhelming on the screen, telling a story that is simultaneously a love triangle, a family drama, a Biblical tragedy, a courtroom procedural, a mystery thriller, and a parable of corruption. The characters are people who make poor choices while trying to do the right thing, but these choices reveal how inadequate they are in the face of the larger task. Kolia and Lilya’s marriage crumbles; Dima is driven back to the city. There is death and tragedy and imprisonment, like a good Dostoyevsky novel, and even the most kind characters have harshness as their default setting.

Zyvagintsev also wants to keep us at a distance from the action, both in his decision to make the characters somewhat despicable and in his directing choices, too. Most key scenes take place off-camera, lending mystery to some of them and discretion to others. We watch Dima get beaten up through a car windshield that blocks all sound. When we hear people talking, we very rarely get an understanding of their emotions, and when we see their emotions we never hear them speak. Lilya makes a decision that changes the world of the film, in both good and bad ways, and yet she says only five words of dialogue in her last fifteen minutes of screentime and still her decision makes a certain amount of clinical sense. It’s like watching a tragic lab trial from behind a clipboard.

What’s the point of this? Of striving? Why slog onwards in this blue-and-grey wasteland, why be at the mercy of heedless and brutal regimes? As Dima suggests, ‘everything is everyone’s fault’. I think of Kolia as being like a late-act Macbeth: in a position of power that he wants to maintain, but being constantly buffeted by a higher force that wants to balance things out. In Macbeth, that force is arguably fate, but more accurately the whims of classical tragic narrative. In Leviathan, the higher power is the world that gives no shits about the everyday man. Do Kolia and Lilya and Roma and Dima get what they deserve? Do they deserve the endings they get?

No. It’s worse than that. They deserve nothing at all.

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Quadro dramas no Globoplay para ver em casa

Triste finitude

O austríaco Haneke gosta de jogar a plateia em turbilhões emocionais por meio de narrativas secas e isentas de sentimentalismo. em Amor, tem o mérito de trazer à tona uma história de desenrolar triste e arrasador, sem deixar a trama cair na monotonia. Simples, a história flagra o cotidiano de um casal de octogenários, George (Jean-louis Trintignant, magnífico!) e Anne (Emmanuelle Riva). Durante um café da manhã, Anne não esboça nenhuma reação. A partir daí, Haneke usa elipses para mostrar a finitude da personagem após um derrame.

Mamãe passa pano

Drama romeno, Instinto Materno traz uma personagem dominadora. Cornelia (a excelente Luminita Gheorghiu) é uma senhora da alta sociedade de Bucareste. Ela usa casacos de pele, fuma muito e detesta a nora. Ao saber que seu filho atropelou e matou um adolescente pobre, usa seu poder para livrá-lo de um processo. O trintão Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache), contudo, está cansado da superproteção da mãe, quer ter uma vida independente e se sente arrasado pelo que fez. Nas entrelinhas do roteiro, são enfocados a luta de classes, o tráfico de influência e a corrupção.

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Frio e cruel

No drama Leviatã, do diretor Andrey Zvyagintsev, Dmitri (Vladimir Vdovitchenkov), um advogado de Moscou, vai até a Península de Kola, no extremo norte do país, para ajudar seu amigo Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), que teve um terreno confiscado a mando do corrupto prefeito (Roman Madyanov). Como Dmitri possui um dossiê comprometedor do político, não pensa duas vezes para chantageá-lo. Assim começa uma história regada a litros de vodca, traição e morte.

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LeviatãDivulgação/Divulgação

Grande take

Há ousadia e sucesso do diretor alemão Sebastian Schipper em rodar Victoria de uma tacada só, num grande take de mais de duas horas. Embora tenha alguns pontos embaçados no início, a história deslancha pela narrativa hipnótica, vinda de uma câmera em (quase) constante movimento. A trama flagra a espanhola Victoria (papel de Laia Costa) saindo de uma balada de Berlim. Paquerada por Sonne (Frederick Lau), a jovem decide aceitar o convite dele e de seus três amigos para seguir na noite.

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Publicado em VEJA São Paulo de 10 de fevereiro de 2021, edição nº 2724

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Левиафан, 2014

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Roman Madyanov Bio, Height, Wiki, Age, Wife, Birthday, Parents & Net Worth

Roman Madyanov Bio, Height, Wiki, Age, Wife, Birthday, Parents & Net Worth

Roman Madyanov

Roman Madyanov also known as Roman Sergeevich Madyanov is a famous Soviet and Russian actor. Born on July 22, 1962, the talented actor Madyanov mainly works in the Russian showbiz industry who started a career as a child actor. He made acting appeared in the film ‘Hopelessly Lost’ in 1973. 

Full Name Roman Madyanov Nick Name Roman Age (As of 2019) 57 years old Date of Birth (DOB),…

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Leviathan 2014

Leviathan 2014

On the outskirts of a small coastal town in the Barents Sea, where whales sometimes come to its bay, lives an ordinary family: Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), his wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) and their teenage son Romka. The family is haunted by a local corrupted mayor (Roman Madyanov), who is trying to take away the land, a house and a small auto repair shop from Kolya. To save their homes Kolya calls his old Army friend in Moscow (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), who has now become an authoritative attorney. Together they decide to fight back and collect dirt on the mayor.

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Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)

cinematography: Mikhail Krichman

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Madyanov Roman and Alexey Molyanov

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Leviathan (2014)

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man’s arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev Writers: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov | See full cast and crew »