In wartime Moscow, corporate executive Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov) sees his comfortable existence unravel when the state orders him to select employees for military conscription, just as he discovers his wife is having an affair. Desperate to maintain control, his clandestine pursuit of her lover quickly spirals into violence, exposing the cowardice and moral decay beneath his privileged life.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Minotaur marks the return of master director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Loveless). Loosely reimagining Claude Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife through the lens of modern Russian state complicity, this clinical, slow-burn psychological thriller delivers relentless tension and haunting widescreen cinematography built for the big screen.
In Russian with English subtitles.
Rated M18 for Nudity.