Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
Кирилл СЕРЕБРЕННИКОВ
Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
Russia, 2006, 100mn 
Colour, fiction
Playing the Victim
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 Jouer les victimes

 Izobrazhaya zhertvy

Other titles : Dans le rôle de la victime
 
Directed by : Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV (Кирилл СЕРЕБРЕННИКОВ)
Writing credits : Oleg PRESNIAKOV (Олег ПРЕСНЯКОВ), Vladimir PRESNIAKOV (Владимир ПРЕСНЯКОВ)
Based on the play of the same title by the Presnyakov Brothers
 
Cast
Yuri CHURSIN (Юрий ЧУРСИН) ...Valentin
Vitali KHAEV (Виталий ХАЕВ) ...captain
Anna MIKHALKOVA (Анна МИХАЛКОВА) ...Lyuda
Marat BASHAROV (Марат БАШАРОВ) ...Karas
Liya AKHEDZHAKOVA (Лия АХЕДЖАКОВА) ...serveuse en kimono
Olga DEMIDOVA (Ольга ДЕМИДОВА)
Fyodor DOBRONRAVOV (Федор ДОБРОНРАВОВ)
Andrey FOMIN (Андрей ФОМИН)
Igor GASPARYAN (Игорь ГАСПАРЯН)
Marina GOLUB (Марина ГОЛУБ)
Aleksandr ILIN jr. (Александр ИЛЬИН мл.) ...Seva
Maksim KONOVALOV (Максим КОНОВАЛОВ)
Natalia MOKRITSKAIA (Наталья МОКРИЦКАЯ)
Yelena MOROZOVA (Елена МОРОЗОВА)
 
Cinematography : Sergey MOKRITSKY (Сергей МОКРИЦКИЙ)
Production design : Valery ARKHIPOV (Валерий АРХИПОВ)
Music : Aleksandr MANOTSKOV (Александр МАНОЦКОВ)
Editing : Olga GRINSHPUN (Ольга ГРИНШПУН)
Produced by : Natalia MOKRITSKAIA (Наталья МОКРИЦКАЯ), Ulyana SAVELIEVA (Ульяна САВЕЛЬЕВА), Leonid ZAGALSKY (Леонид ЗАГАЛЬСКИЙ)
Production : Novye Liodi; Vega Production
Film revenue in Russia : 0.049 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 08/06/2006
 
format : 35 mm
Sites : Allociné, IMDb

Awards :
Special mention Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2007
Best actor Yuri CHURSIN , Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007
First prize Rome Film Festival, Rome (Italy), 2006
First prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Liya AKHEDZHAKOVA , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2006
Best Screenplay Vladimir PRESNIAKOV , Oleg PRESNIAKOV , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2006
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Anna MIKHALKOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2006

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
 

Commentaries and bibliography
The Self and the Other in Recent Russian Cinema, Birgit BEUMERS, kinokultura.com, 2010
Жар нежных, Lidia MASLOVA, seance.ru, 2006
Kirill Serebrennikov : Playing the Victim (Izobrazhaia zhertvu, 2006), Oleg SULKIN, kinokultura.com, 2006
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2018
- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
- Tbilisi International Film Festival, Tbilisi (Georgia), 2010
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, 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
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2007
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (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
- Rome Film Festival, Rome (Italy), 2006
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2006
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2006
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2006
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006
- Festival of Festivals, St Petersburg (Russia), 2006
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2006
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2006

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