Russia, 2022. Shipping executive Gleb finds himself under siege on all fronts: haunted by suspicions that his wife is unfaithful and facing a demand to draft a quota of employees for Putin’s war on Ukraine. Though desperate to keep his hands clean, his struggle to reassert control accelerates toward violence.
Longtime chronicler of corruption and ennui in his native Russia, director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Loveless, Leviathan), now in exile, observes the societal effects of a war that, like the minotaur of legend, demands ever-greater human sacrifice. For those who enjoyed Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, or Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game.
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