MINOTAUR
Special Features: Special Presentation | 2027 Oscar® Selection, France
[MINOTAURE] [Минотавр]
2022. Russia has invaded Ukraine, and across the country, eligible young men are being forcibly conscripted into the war machine. For corporate director Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov), the invasion is simply background noise until the city’s mayor instructs him to enlist 14 men from his shipping company to send to the front lines. Meanwhile, Gleb has suspicions about his otherwise dutiful wife, Glina (Iris Lebedeva), as she recently has been distracted by messages on her phone or odd trips into town. After his head of security investigates Gleb’s wife and returns with damning evidence of her true whereabouts, Gleb takes matters into his own bloody hands. Nine years after his last film, Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev returns with a loose adaptation of Claude Chabrol’s 1969 film THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE that remixes that thriller into a biting indictment of the social and political malaise that has mired Zvyagintsev’s homeland. Shot entirely in France but with several of his key Russian collaborators — cinematographer Mikhail Krichman, composers Evgueni and Sacha Galperine and production designers Masha Slavina and Andrey Ponkratov, all of whom have now left Russia — Zvyagintsev’s latest won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, adding to the filmmaker’s already impressive record of critically acclaimed films (LEVIATHAN, THE RETURN). —Javier Chavez
Winner, Grand Prix, 2026 Cannes Film Festival. DIR/SCR/PROD Andrey Zvyagintsev; SCR Simon Lyashenko, from the film THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE, screenplay by Claude Chabrol; PROD Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Marco Perego. France/Germany/Latvia, 2026, color, 142 min. In Russian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Also part of New Releases.
Run Time: 142 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, December 04, 2026
Genre: Drama
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