Andreï Zviaguintsev told AFP that he doubted whether his film would one day be screened in his country because of its anti-war remarks. “But in Russia, the piracy industry is in full swing, so everyone who wants to see it will definitely see it,” he wants to believe.
Russian director Andreï Zviaguintsev, who won the Grand Prix at Cannes for his film Minotaurcalled in his acceptance speech on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the “carnage” about the war in Ukraine.
“Millions of people on both sides of the front line dream of only one thing, that the massacres stop”declared the director, speaking in Russian translated into French by an interpreter. Andreï Zviaguintsev today lives in exile in France.
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“Boucherie”
“The only person who can put an end to this butchery is the President of the Russian Federation. Put an end to this carnage, the whole world is waiting for it.”he pleaded. Minotaur tells the story of a Russian bourgeois couple in the midst of a marital crisis, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. Gleb, a successful business manager whose wife Galina seems bored in this congested life, decides to hire a detective to find out if his wife is cheating on him.
Remake the The unfaithful wife (1969) by Claude Chabrol, the film shows the disintegration of Russian society where political and economic decision-makers manage to send the least productive citizens to the front.
Anti-war comments
Shot in Latvia, this is the first feature film by the director, one of the figures of independent Russian cinema, not to have been made in Russia.
Andreï Zviaguintsev told AFP that he doubted whether his film would one day be screened in his country because of its anti-war remarks. “But in Russia the piracy industry is in full swing, so anyone who wants to see it will definitely see it.”he wants to believe.
