Andrey ZVIAGINTSEV
Андрей ЗВЯГИНЦЕВ
Andreï ZVIAGUINTSEV
Russia, 2014, 144mn 
Colour, speaking, fiction
Leviafan
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Левиафан

 

 Leviathan

 Léviathan

 
Directed by : Andrey ZVIAGINTSEV (Андрей ЗВЯГИНЦЕВ)
Writing credits : Oleg NEGIN (Олег НЕГИН), Andrey ZVIAGINTSEV (Андрей ЗВЯГИНЦЕВ)
 
Cast
Aleksey SEREBRIAKOV (Алексей СЕРЕБРЯКОВ) ...Nikolay
Vladimir VDOVICHENKOV (Владимир ВДОВИЧЕНКОВ) ...Dmitry
Yelena LIADOVA (Елена ЛЯДОВА) ...Lilia
Roman MADIANOV (Роман МАДЯНОВ) ...the mayor
Anna UKOLOVA (Анна УКОЛОВА)
Aleksey ROZIN (Алексей РОЗИН)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail KRICHMAN (Михаил КРИЧМАН)
Production design : Andrey PONKRATOV (Андрей ПОНКРАТОВ)
Music : Philip GLASS (Филип ГЛАСС)
Sound : Andrey DERGACHYOV (Андрей ДЕРГАЧЕВ)
Editing : Anna MASS (Анна МАСС)
Produced by : Sergey MELKUMOV (Сергей МЕЛЬКУМОВ), Aleksandr RODNYANSKY (Александр РОДНЯНСКИЙ)
Companies : Нон-Стоп Продакшн. Non-Stop Production, avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture de la Fédération de Russie, du Fonds du cinéma et de la fondation RuArts
Film revenue in Russia : 1.3753 million dollars
Spectators : 348 000
Release Date in Russia : 05/02/2015
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Wikipedia
Release date in France : 2014-09-24, Site

Awards :
FIPRESCI Prize Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs (USA), 2015
Best film Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Best directing Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Best Screenplay Oleg NEGIN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Best actress Yelena LIADOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Best actor Aleksey SEREBRIAKOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Roman MADIANOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Best Screenplay Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2014
Best film The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2014
First prize Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2014
Best actor Aleksey SEREBRIAKOV , Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2014

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Pyramide Vidéo. 2015. Titre : Leviathan.
DVD Zone 2

Plot synopsis
With the film's magisterial opening — the coastal landscape of the Barents Sea, set to the clarion call of Philip Glass's symphonic score — Zvyagintsev sets the stage for a story in which human intrigues are indistinguishable from forces of nature In a small seaside town, weather-beaten patriarch Kolya (Alexey Serebryakov) lives with his teenage son Roma (Sergey Pokhadaev) and second wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova). Their idyllic homestead harbours deep-rooted familial resentments that are aggravated by the aggressions of the local mayor Vadim (Roman Madyanov), a drunken, corrupt bureaucrat set on grabbing their land for himself. When Kolya calls in his lawyer friend Dima (Vladimir Vdovitchenkov) from Moscow, this defensive tactic triggers a series of dramatic events. In the hands of Zvyagintsev and co-writer Oleg Negin (previous collaborators on the 2011 Festival selection Elena), the premise expands from a rural-scale morality play to a philosophical examination of contemporary Russian society. Zvyagintsev and his regular cinematographer Mikhail Krichman give a painterly, meditative rendering to this tale whose near-primordial themes have their roots in Thomas Hobbes and the Book of Job.
Source : http://www.tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/programmes/
 

commentaries
«Все закончится финальными титрами». Андрей Звягинцев [Interview d'Andreï Zviaguintsev au sujet de ses films Léviathan (Левиафан), 2014 et Faute d'amour (Нелюбовь), 2017], Anton DOLIN, Andrey ZVIAGINTSEV, Radio Doline, 2023
Dix films pour découvrir la nature unique de Russie, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films d'Andreï Zviaguintsev que vous devriez regarder au plus vite, Valeria PAÏKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
«Дурак» , «Левиафан» , «Время первых» : 8 российских операторов — о своих фильмах и о профессии, Mikhail Morkin, Sergey Sychev, kinopoisk.ru, 2020
The Most Significant Russian Films of the Last Decade [2005-2016], Academic Studies Press, 2019
Léviathan (2014) [de Andreï ZVIAGUINTSEV], Quentin CORAY, alarencontreduseptiemeart.com, 2018
Léviathan (Левиафан) [2014, de Andreï Zviaguintsev], Emmanuel GRYNSZPAN, grincine.blogspot.com, 2015
Andrei Zviagintsev: Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014), Julian GRAFFY, Kinokultura, 2015
Off the hook: Oscar nominee Leviathan is under attack in Russia. Here’s the case for the defence, Saprykin Yury, , 2015
Léviathan : le pot de terre contre le pot de fer, version russe, Franck NOUCHI, lemonde.fr, 2014
Léviathan , impressionnant Andreï Zviaguintsev, Arnaud SCHWARTZ, , 2014
Léviathan , de Andreï Zviaguintsev : la loi des affreux, Pierre MURAT, telerama.fr, 2014
Léviathan un homme seul face aux vices des puissants, MANDELBAUM, Jacques, , 2014
Cannes 2014 review: Leviathan a new russian masterpiece, BRADSHAW Peter, theguardian.com, 2014
Le film Léviathan primé à Cannes déjà vendu dans 40 pays, BERGON Mathilde, lefigaro.fr, 2014
Le film Léviathan dénonce magistralement la corruption russe, SCHWARTZ Arnaud, Interview, , 2014
 
One of the most controversial Russian films of recent times. Leviathan premiered in May 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film was not released in Russian theaters until February 2015. During this time, a lot has happened : the film was purged of "obscene" expressions , because of which Zvyagintsev's film was banned from theatrical screening, and then the original version was published on the Internet.

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Another Russia. Film Festival, Taverny (France), 2024
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Rétrospective Andreï Zviaguintsev au Louxor et Nouvel Odéon, Paris (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2022
- Reflets du cinéma de la Mer Noire en Mayenne, Different cities (France), 2022
- Rencontres du 7ème art à Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2019
- Quinzaine du Cinéma Russe, Bourgouin Jallieu (France), 2017
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2017
- Moissons rouges - Caméras en campagne, Saint-Julien en Vercors (France), 2016
- Angers Festival Premiers Plans, Angers (France), 2016
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2016
- Shangai International Film Festival, Shangai (China), 2015
- Beijing's First Ever International Film Festival, Beijing (China), 2015
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2015
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2015
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2015
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
- Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs (USA), 2015
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 2014
- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2014
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2014
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2014
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2014
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2014-09-24
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2014
- Festival of Russian cinema in Nice, Nice (France), 2014
- Les rencontres des cinémas d'Europe, Aubenas (France), 2014
- Munich International Film Festival, Munich (Germany), 2014
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2014
- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2014
- Era New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw (Poland), 2014
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2014
- Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2014
- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2014
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 2013

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