Das neue Meisterwerk von Andreï Zviaguintsev („Leviathan“) ist eine bitterböse Abrechnung mit den Mächtigen in Putins Russland. Eine Familiengeschichte mit schwarzem Humor.

Russland, 2022. Als Gleb, ein erfolgreicher Businessman, sich dem zunehmenden Druck im Geschäftsleben und einer immer instabiler werdenden Welt ausgesetzt sieht, beschleunigt sich der Zusammenbruch seines sorgfältig geordneten Lebens.

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»Andreï Zviaguintsev returns in impeccable form with a despairing, darkly funny reflection on corruption and betrayal in Putin’s Russia«

Variety

»A masterclass in directorial descipline«

Deadline

»Imagine a Hitchcock thriller situated in the saddest, crummiest, most totalitarian corners of our times — and with an unfliching camera that offers no reassurance — and you’ll have some idea of just how bleak this unfeeling movie can get.«

Indie Wire

★★★★★ »A portrait of a nation paralysed with disillusionment and fear«

The Guardian

»This rigorously well-made, grippy-as-a-live-squid, toska-steeped work is Zvyagintsev’s most openly critical commentary on the motherland’s current political, spiritual and moral malaise, a denunciation never said in so many words but expressed with intricate layers of irony.«

The Hollywood Reporter

»Andreï Zviaguintsev remakes Claude Chabrol’s „The Unfaithful Wife“ as immaculate domestic thriller«

Screen Daily

»Zviaguintsev tempers his gesture, shies away from the rawest and most demanding manner of his cinema, and offers a masterpiece in its concision, violence and darkness.«

El Mundo

»Morbidly humorous and shot with such patience as to conjure its latent anxieties up to the surface, MINOTAUR is a thriller about how the personal always intertwines with the political, and the damning reality that we can never deal with one crisis at a time.«

The Wrap