Leviathan – 4PM

Written and Directed by: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cast: Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Alexey Rozin, Sergey Pokhadaev
Drama, 14A or language and some sexuality/graphic nudity, 141 minutes, Russian with English Subtitles (Russia)

Tickets: Adult $10, Senior/Student $8

Acclaimed Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return) won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes and Golden Globe for this painterly, primordial tale about a proud patriarch fighting to protect his family home from a corrupt local official. Set in the remote Russian northwest, this is the tragic tale of one man’s struggle against a corrupt system of power. Kolya (Alexey Serebryakov), a part-time mechanic, lives on a rocky shore with his wife and son in a house he built himself. When a local mayor attempts to seize the property through a compulsory purchase order he calls in a lawyer friend from Moscow to help fight his case. But the wheels of justice soon prove to be slow, heavy and quite possibly deadly…

“From its chamber-piece delicacy and bureaucratic detail to a grandeur and implacable pessimism that seem as ancient as the land itself, “Leviathan” is a distinctly Russian tragedy.” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

“One of the outstanding films of 2014, Leviathan lives up to its title: it’s a behemoth of intelligent contemporary cinema.” – Jonathan Romney, Film Comment Magazine