Details

Release year: 2014

Storyline

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.

Top credits

Directors

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Writers

Cast

Aleksey Serebryakov — Nikolay
Elena Lyadova — Lilya
Roman Madyanov — Mer
Vladimir Vdovichenkov — Dmitriy

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• For many of the scenes involving drinking, the actors and director decided that they would drink for real, and the take that ended up being used in the movie was often the eighth or ninth take, after they had gotten really drunk and their movements and reactions were slower, which can be difficult for an actor to replicate.

• Vladimir Vdovichenkov, who played Dmitry, and Elena Lyadova, who played Lilya, started a personal relationship during filming. They got married in early 2015.

• When the scene where the mayor visits Nikolay's house and confronts Nikolay and Dmitry was being filmed, Aleksey Serebryakov, who played Nikolay, was so drunk that he became sick and had to leave the scene. Roman Madyanov, who played the drunken mayor, was actually the only one who was sober and he ended up doing much of the scene alone without anyone to act against.