TMDB 7.6 2014 Russia 140 min

Leviathan

Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev

What is the price of a man's dignity?

A man living in a small Russian town fights to keep his house from being seized by the corrupt local mayor, with devastating consequences for his family.

Starring
Aleksey SerebryakovElena LyadovaVladimir VdovichenkovRoman Madyanov
with Anna Ukolova, Aleksey Rozin, Sergey Pokhodaev, Platon Kamenev
Screenplay — Oleg Negin
Cinematography — Mikhail Krichman
Music — Andrey Dergachev
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Deep Dive

The interpretation layer: what to read, listen to and play around this film.

01
Companion

The Book of Job

Various (Biblical)

The film names it out loud. Job loses everything and is never told why — so does Kolya.

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02 Companion Sankya Prilepin on the same provincial Russia, from inside the anger rather than above it. → 03 Soundtrack Leviathan OST Philip Glass →

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