The Director will represent our country in the main competition.

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Photo: Yury Feklistov

A new film by Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Dislike” hit the mainstream
contest 70-th Cannes film festival. Russian Director once again
confirms the title of “pet” by prestigious European forums. In fact, since
triumph “Return” at the Venice film festival in 2003, almost all of his paintings
he received worldwide recognition. Including at the Cannes film festival, where
years prizes were awarded to “Elena” and “Leviathan”.

Inspiration for new work Zvyagintsev was Ingemar
Bergman and his film “Scenes from a marriage”. For example, the classic Russian
the Director also decided to investigate the crisis between the spouses who have lived
together for more than 10 years. Zvyagintsev has warned that the audience will not be able to keep
tears while viewing the pictures.

In contrast to the “Leviathan”, starring many famous
actors: Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Aleksey Serebryakov and Roman Madyanov, in a new movie of the renowned names can only be called Yevgeny Dmitriev,
known for his roles in the TV series “Sklifosofsky”, “Londongrad. Know ours!” and “Mosgaz”.

It is noteworthy that “Dislike” was removed without state
support. This was stated by one of the producers of the film Alexander Rodnyansky.