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After Venya’s mother receives a call from school reporting her son’s refusal to participate in mixed swimming lessons, she first suspects her teenager of being shy and derides his claim that it is “against his religion.” As Venya is finally exempted by the school’s devout principal, he grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority. Challenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community. At a time when arguments over the teaching of religion in public schools are prominent in the media, this wildly escalating classroom drama — based on a play by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg — serves as a frightening cautionary tale.
Original Release
09/16/2016
US Release
04/21/2017
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Pyotr Skvortsov | Veniamin Yuzhin / Veniamin |
Viktoriya Isakova | Elena Krasnova / Krasnova |
Yuliya Aug | Inga Yuzhina / Mother |
Aleksandr Gorchilin | Grigoriy Zaytsev / Grisha |
Aleksandra Revenko | Lidiya Tkacheva / Lida Tkachenko |
Anton Vasilev | Oleg Ivanovich Selnenko |
Svetlana Bragarnik | Lyudmila Stukalina / School Director |
Nikolay Roshchin | Otets Vsevolod |
Irina Rudniktskaya | Irina Petrovna |
Marina Kleshcheva | School Bursar |
Directors
Writers
Kirill Serebrennikov, Marius von Mayenburg
Cast
Name | Character |
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Pyotr Skvortsov | Veniamin Yuzhin / Veniamin |
Viktoriya Isakova | Elena Krasnova / Krasnova |
Yuliya Aug | Inga Yuzhina / Mother |
Aleksandr Gorchilin | Grigoriy Zaytsev / Grisha |
Aleksandra Revenko | Lidiya Tkacheva / Lida Tkachenko |
Anton Vasilev | Oleg Ivanovich Selnenko |
Svetlana Bragarnik | Lyudmila Stukalina / School Director |
Nikolay Roshchin | Otets Vsevolod |
Irina Rudniktskaya | Irina Petrovna |
Marina Kleshcheva | School Bursar |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Cosimo Fini | Executive Producer |
Murad Osmann | Executive Producer |
Guè Pequeno | Executive Producer |
Claudio Bellante | Producer |
Fabrizio Conte | Producer |
Ilya Dzhincharadze | Producer |
Katerina Komolova | Producer |
Yuriy Kozyrev | Producer |
Diana Safarova | Producer |
Sergey Shtern | Producer |
Ilya Stewart | Producer |
Svetlana Ustinova | Producer |
Olga Zorina | Producer |