MINOTAUR
Fiction Shortlist 2027
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2h 21m
MINOTAURE
France, Germany, Latvia
2026 | 141 min. | Fiction
Russia, 2022. When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
Directed by: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Written by: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Liachenko
Produced by: Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Roman Paul, Julia Zaitseva
Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman
Editing: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Production Design: Masha Slavina, Andrey Ponkatrov
Costume Design: Ouliana Polanskaïa
Make-Up & Hair: Alena Dmitrieva
Original Score: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Sound: Andrey Dergachev
Casting: Assia Smekalova, Alexander Rokis, Dzianis Saroka
Cast: Dmitrii Mazurov (Gleb), Iris Lebedeva (Galina), Boris Kudrin (Seryozha), Yuriy Zavalnyouk (Anton), Varvara Chmykova (Natasha), Vladimir Friedman (Mayor), Mihails Samodahovs (Nikolai), Elena Bogdanovich-Goloubeva (Tatiana), Anatoly Vaysman (Kostia)
Production:
CG Cinema
https://www.cgcinema.eu
World Sales:
MK2 Films
https://mk2films.com/
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