Minotaure / Minotaur
2026, 135 min.

pokaz przedpremierowy

Awards and selections: 2026 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prix, Official Competition, Oscars 2027 – French contender for the Best International Feature Film nomination
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Cast: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Anatoly Bely, Juris Žagars
Country: France, Germany, Latvi

[IN-PERSON SCREENING]

War invades the life of a Russian oligarch, whose private world begins to fall apart alongside his business empire

Russia, 2022. Gleb, a successful company director, leads a life built on the illusion of stability, control and security. But mounting pressure, the crisis unfolding around him and a chance encounter set in motion a chain of events that becomes increasingly difficult to control. An adaptation of Claude Chabrol’s “The Unfaithful Wife”, “Minotaur” transforms an intimate story of betrayal into a dark portrait of a society engulfed in moral chaos. In a world where the boundaries between guilt, violence and indifference have disappeared, a spiral of events leads inevitably to tragedy.

In the media

«This question contains the most tragic diagnosis of Russian society offered by Minotaur – a film that leads us through the familiar paths of an ancient moral tale, only to underline the fact that morality disappeared from this world long ago.»
— Maciej Roch Satora, Filmweb, read the full review here

«A penetrating story of the moral collapse of Putin’s Russia. (…) Some, especially the elites, use the machinery of war to settle their private scores, while others remain passive.»
— Kuba Armata, Interia, read the full review here

«Zvyagintsev returns to Russia – a state of ghosts and shapes resembling people. There is no society, no faith and no hope. There is only a theatre in which the illusion of happiness or love will soon be thrown off the balcony. Everyone has a window, but no one reacts. A film that brilliantly exposes Russian society, its powerlessness and moral decline. It was not the regime alone that created the monster, but society as a whole – including the upper class, which simply plays along with what others impose on it.»
— Filip Mańka, Filmweb capsule review

Andrei Zvyagintsev

Russian director, screenwriter and producer, and one of the most important figures in contemporary Russian cinema. He won the Golden Lion at Venice for “The Return” (2003), while “Leviathan” (2014) earned him the Cannes Award for Best Screenplay and an Academy Award nomination. “Loveless “(2017) won the Jury Prize at Cannes and was also nominated for an Oscar. Minotaur is his first feature film in nine years.

Tags: war in Ukraine, Russia, oligarchy, marital crisis, power