Minotaur
Employees are fleeing abroad, and Gleb’s company is forced to cooperate with the mobilization. His business is under pressure, and social unrest is mounting. When he discovers that his wife is cheating on him, he slowly loses his grip on reality. Caught between political pressure, business interests, and personal humiliation, Gleb tries to maintain control over his life. This culminates in an increasingly escalating confrontation with himself and those around him, in which the line between political reality and his private life grows ever more blurred. With *Minotaur*, Russian master filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev returned to the Cannes main competition after nearly a decade, where the film won the Grand Prix. The film was received with great enthusiasm by the international film press, and the work of regular cinematographer Mikhail Krichman and the strong performances by lead actors Dmitriy Mazurov and Iris Lebedeva have also been praised. The screenplay is based on Claude Chabrol’s *La Femme Infidèle* (1969), and the haunting score is by Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. With its mythical references to the Minotaur, Zvyagintsev delivers a gripping thriller about guilt, choices, and human vulnerability.
- Direction
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast
- Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva
- Duration
- 142 min
- RELEASE
- Thu 26 Nov
- Year
- 2026
- Country
- France, Latvia
- Language
- Russian
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