'Victim' tops at Kinotavr
SOCHI, Russia -- Playing the Victim, film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov's dark drama about life in modern Russia, took top prize at the closing of the 17th edition of the Kinotavr national film festival in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. An absurdist take on the emptiness of contemporary life in Moscow, "Victim" was a surprise jury choice at a festival with a strong competition lineup, in which 14 out of 15 films were premieres. In the film -- an adaptation of the stage play by brothers Oleg and Vladimir Presnyakov -- university graduate Valya (Yuri Chursin) slips into a meaningless job playing the murder victim in pointless police crime re-enactments and is dogged by allusions to Hamlet and bedeviled by a nihilistic mantra -- "I don't live".
- 6/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'Victim' tops at Kinotavr
SOCHI, Russia -- Playing the Victim, film and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov's dark drama about life in modern Russia, took top prize at the closing of the 17th edition of the Kinotavr national film festival in the southern Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. An absurdist take on the emptiness of contemporary life in Moscow, Victim was a surprise jury choice at a festival with a strong competition lineup, in which 14 out of 15 films were premieres. In the film -- an adaptation of the stage play by brothers Oleg and Vladimir Presnyakov -- university graduate Valya (Yuri Chursin) slips into a meaningless job playing the murder victim in pointless police crime re-enactments and is dogged by allusions to Hamlet and bedeviled by a nihilistic mantra -- "I don't live."...
- 6/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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