Synopsis
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
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Cast
- Aleksey SerebryakovNikolay Sergeev
- Elena LyadovaLiliya Sergeeva
- Vladimir VdovichenkovDmitriy Seleznyov
- Roman MadyanovVadim Shelevyat
- Anna UkolovaAnzhela Polivanova
- Aleksey RozinPasha
- Sergey PokhodaevRoma
- Valeriy GrishkoBishop
- Sergey BachurskiyStepanych
- Platon KamenevVitya
Recommendations
- 100
CineVue
Zvyagintsev's pessimism is leavened both by his comedy and his sense of beauty. Mikhail Krichman's cinematography captures the sublime grandeur of the landscape against which the nasty, brutish and short lives are played out. - 100
IndieWire
Rather than building towards the finality of a single climax, Leviathan injects several of them into the tapestry of its elegant design. - 100
The Guardian
Leviathan is acted and directed with unflinching ambition, moving with deliberative slowness and periodically accelerating at moments of high drama and suspense. It isn't afraid of massive symbolic moments and operatic gestures. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Simultaneously a modern essay on suffering, an open-ended thriller, and a black social comedy, it is most importantly of all a thinly-veiled political parable drenched in bitter irony that takes aim against the corrupt, corrosive regime of Vladimir Putin. - 100
The Playlist
If there was ever any doubt as to Zvyagintsev's position as one of world cinema's foremost auteurs, it's put to rest here. His filmmaking has always been superb, but he's never taken on the state of his nation in the way he does here. And that makes "Leviathan" not just masterful but also hugely important. - 100
Variety
This is the director’s most accessible and naturalistic film, using everyday characters to test how well modern-day Russia is maintaining the social contract with its citizens. - 100
Empire
Frustrating, funny at points, heartbreaking and quite magnificently shot throughout, Leviathan is one of the films of the year. - 88
Slant Magazine
Andrey Zvyagintsev never loses sight of the humans, who're allowed to display improvisatory behavior that deepens the majesty of the rigorously orchestrated tableaus.
