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Completed - RUSSIAN - Drama - 141 minutes

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV
Writer(s) : Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV, Oleg NEGIN
Cast : Alexey SEREBRYAKOV, Elena LYADOVA, Vladimir VDOVICHENKOV, Roman MADYANOV

Producer(s) : Alexander RODNYANSKY, Sergey MELKUMOV

Synopsis

Leviathan is a modern day retelling of the Biblical story of Jobs set in contemporary Russia. Kolia (Alexey Serebryakov) lives in a small town near the Barents Sea, in North Russia. He has his own auto-repair shop. His shop stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) and his son from a previous marriage Romka (Sergey Pokhodaev). Vadim Sergeyich (Roman Madyanov), the Mayor of the town, wants to take away his business, his house and his land. First he tries buying off Kolia but Kolia isn’t interested in money, he doesn’t want to lose everything he has: not only the land, but also all the beauty that has surrounded him from the day of his birth. As Vadim Sergeyich starts being more aggressive, Kolia asks his best friend Dmitri (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), a lawyer from Moscow, to help him, unaware that this would change his life forever.

Production

Country(ies) : RUSSIA

ARGENTINA IFA CINEMA
AUSTRALIA PALACE FILMS
AUSTRIA Mar 13, 2015 POLYFILM VERLEI
BELGIUM LUMIÈRE (GHENT)
BRAZIL IMOVISION
BULGARIA Mar 01, 2015 SOFIA INTERNATI
CANADA MÉTROPOLE FILMS
CZECH REPU FILM EUROPE (CZ
DENMARK CAMERA FILM A/S
FINLAND Apr 17, 2015 CINEMA MONDO
FRANCE Sep 24, 2014 PYRAMIDE DISTRI
GERMANY Mar 12, 2015 WILD BUNCH GERM
GERMANY Jan 15, 2016 EUROVIDEO MEDIE
GREECE SEVEN FILMS
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
ICELAND Oct 24, 2014 HEIMILI KVIKMYN
ITALY May 07, 2015 ACADEMY TWO
JAPAN BITTERS END, IN
KOREA (Sou AUD
MALAYSIA ASTRO ALL ASIA
MALAYSIA MEASAT BROADCAS
MEXICO MANTARRAYA PROD
NETHERLAND Oct 23, 2014 LUMIÈRE (AMSTER
NORWAY ARTHAUS
NORWAY FILM & KINO
POLAND AGAINST GRAVITY
PORTUGAL LEOPARDO FILMES
ROMANIA VOODOO FILMS SR
RUSSIA AYYO LLC
SPAIN Jan 01, 2015 GOLEM DISTRIBUC
SWEDEN Mar 13, 2015 GÖTEBORG FILM F
SWEDEN Mar 13, 2015 NONSTOP ENTERTA
SWITZERLAN CINEWORX GMBH
UNITED KIN CURZON CINEMAS
UNITED KIN CURZON ARTIFICI
UNITED KIN CURZON FILM WOR
USA PALMERA INTERNA

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Festivals and Awards

67th Cannes International Film Festival 2014 (Prize for the Best Screenplay )
49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014 (Program “Horizons”, special screening )
32nd Munich International Film Festival 2014 (Grand Prix of the festival, program “Cinemasters”)
21st European Film Festival Palic, Serbia 2014 (Grand Prix “Golden Tower” for the Best Film )
17th Motovun Film Festival, Croatia 2014 (Special screening, Motovun Maverick Award)
Telluride Film Festival, USA 2014 (Special screening)
19th Busan International Film Festival 2014 (Special screening)
The Abu Dhabi International Film Festival 2014 (Grand Prix “Black Pearl” for the Best Film; prize for the Best Actor (Alexey Serebryakov))
Ghent Film Festival, Belgium 2014 (Special screening)
Haifa International Film Festival, Israel 2014 (FEODORA (prize of the European and Mediterranean film critics federation); Special screening)
45th International Film Festival of India, Goa 2014 (Grand Prix “Golden Peacock” for the Best Film, prize for the Best Actor (Alexey Serebryakov))
The 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2014 (Special screening)
22e Festival du Cinéma Russe à Honfleur 2014 (Special screening)
9th Berlin Film Festival of Festivals / 9. Around the World in 14 films 2014 (Special screening, film of the festival’s opening )
19th International Film Festival of Kerala 2014 (Special screening)
Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil 2014 (International Critics Award)
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 (Program “Masters” )
BFI London Film Festival 2014 (Grand Prix for the Best Film )
Sevilla European Film Festival 2014 (Prize for the Best Photography (Mikhail Krichman) )
Singapore International film festival 2014 (Special screening)
Ljubljana International Film Festival 2014 (Special screening)
International Film Festival Camerimage, Poland 2014 (Grand Prix “Golden Frog” for the Best Photography (Mikhail Krichman) )
35TH London Film Critics’ Circle Awards 2014 (Best Foreign Language Film )
GOLDEN GLOBE 2014 (Best Foreign Language Film )
European Film Academy Award 2014 (4 nominations )
BAFTA (The British Academy of Films and Television Arts) 2015 (Category “Best Foreign Language Film”)
Asian Pacific Screen Awards 2015 (Grand Prix for the Best Film)
Tromsø International Film Festival 2015 (Special screening)
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2015 (Main Prize FIPRESCI for the “Best Foreign Language Film”)
OSCAR 2015 (Nomination for the Oscar 2015 Category “Best Foreign Language Film”)
American Film Institute, Los Angeles, US 2015 (Special screening)


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