Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV Кирилл СЕРЕБРЕННИКОВ Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV   Russia, 2006, 100 mn  Colour, fiction

Playing the Victim ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Изображая жертву    Jouer les victimes  Izobrazhaya zhertvy

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Plot synopsis

A black comedy, screen version of the play of the same title by the Presnyakov Brothers
In order to earn money, the university graduate Valia takes up a job with the police, where he plays crime victims in reconstructions of events for the investigation. Every day the team of investigators, including the charismatic captain, the officer Liuda who is armed with a video-camera, and a dumb sergeant, take defendants to crime scenes and reconstruct the tragedy that occurred. In each event additional madness comes into play from the criminals: one has thrown his wife out of a window, the second has drowned his beloved in a pool, the third ñ for no reason whatsoever ñ shot at his former schoolmate in a Japanese restaurant... Clearly, all these ìinvestigationsî are carried out only to adhere to the procedures, because the outcome of each case is well known in advance: the criminal will be convicted. This premise creates a slight absurdity.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

The Self and the Other in Recent Russian Cinema, Birgit BEUMERS, kinokultura.com, 2010

Kirill Serebrennikov : Playing the Victim (Izobrazhaia zhertvu, 2006), Oleg SULKIN, kinokultura.com, 2006

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2011

- Film festival of Russia and CIS countries, Tbilisi (Georgia), 2010

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2009

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- Sofia International Film Festival, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2008

- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2008

- Copenhagen International Film Festival / CPH PIX, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2007

- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2007

- Budapest Rusian Film Days, Budapest (Hungary), 2007

- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2007

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2007

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2007

- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2007

- Tribeca Film Festival, New York (USA), 2007

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2006

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2006

- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2006

- Festival internazionale del Film di Roma, Rome (Italy), 2006

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2006

- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2006

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006

- Festival of Festivals, St Petersburg (Russia), 2006

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2006

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2006

- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2006

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