Minotaurus

A film by Andrei Zvyagintsev. Starts November 5th at the fsk. In Russian with German subtitles.

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Russia, 2022. Gleb, a suc­cessful busi­ness­man, finds hims­elf facing moun­ting busi­ness pres­su­res and poli­ti­cal insta­bi­li­ty. The more he loses con­trol over his careful­ly struc­tu­red life, the more relent­less­ly he heads towards violence.

“With *Minotaur*, Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to the cine­ma after nine years and makes it imme­dia­te­ly clear that his view of Russia has not chan­ged. If any­thing, he has beco­me even more uncom­pro­mi­sing. His pre­vious films, *Leviathan* and *Loveless*, alre­a­dy depic­ted a coun­try who­se social and moral struc­tures had long sin­ce begun to crum­ble. *Minotaur* now feels like the ulti­ma­te escala­ti­on of this world: a film about peo­p­le who have beco­me so accus­to­med to vio­lence, cor­rup­ti­on and emo­tio­nal cold­ness that they bare­ly rea­li­se how deep­ly they them­sel­ves have alre­a­dy sunk into it. (…)

Above all, *Minotaur* is a film that rea­ches far bey­ond its spe­ci­fic poli­ti­cal con­text. It tells the sto­ry of a socie­ty in which peo­p­le have, bit by bit, traded their huma­ni­ty for sta­bi­li­ty, pro­spe­ri­ty and self-pre­ser­va­ti­on – and reco­g­ni­s­es this as a tra­ge­dy.” Mia Pflüger | kinozeit

Cannes Film Festival 2026: Grand Prix

Credits:

Original title: Minotaur
FR/DE/LT 2026, 140 mins, Russian with ori­gi­nal sub­tit­les
Director & Editor: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Screenplay: Seymen Lyashenko and Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman
Starring: Dmitrii Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Boris Kudrin, Yuriy Zavalnyouk

Trailer:

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