"Those who follow the light have only ever invented darkness" (Robert Desnos).
Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions. Can girls go to their swimming classes in bikinis? Does sex education have a place in school? Should the theory of evolution be taught as part of the Natural Sciences?
The adults are soon overwhelmed by the certitudes of the youngster who swears only by Scripture.
No one but Elena, his biology teacher, will alone challenge him on his own ground.
- Country:
- Russia, 2016
- Group:
- Competition
- Duration:
- 118’
- Director:
- Kirill Serebrennikov
- Screenplay:
- Kirill Serebrennikov
- Cast:
- Petr Skvortsov, Victoria Isakova, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Julia AUG, Alexandra Revenko, Anton Vasiliev, Svetlana Bragarnik, Nikolai Roschin, Irina Rudnitskaya
- Festivals:
- 2016 Kan
- Filmography:
- 2016 (M)uchenik / The Student / Učenik 2012 Izmena / Betrayal / Izdaja 2008 Yurev den / Yury’s Day / Jurijev dan 2006 Izobrazhaya zhertvu / Playing the victim 2005 Postelnye stseny / Bed Stories 2004 Ragin 1998 Razdetyye
- Cinematography:
- Vladislav Opelyants
- Editing:
- Yury Karikh
- Music:
- Ilya Demutsky
- Producer:
- Ilya Stewart, Diana Safarova, Yury Kozyrev
- Production:
- Hype Film
- Awards:
- 2016 Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Prize
Showing
Time: 19:30
Price: 350 RSD
Dvorana Kulturnog centra
Time: 16:30
Price: 400 RSD
Cineplexx UŠĆE hall 1
Time: 21:00
Price: 300 RSD
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KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOV
Kirill Serebrennikov (born 1969, in Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian stage and film director, writer and theatre designer. He pursued a degree in physics at the Rostov University.
After years of successful work in theatre and on television, Serebrennikov has been directing films since 1998. His films were screened at film festivals in Cannes, Locarno, Rome, Warsaw. Films that stand out are The Student (2016), Betrayal (2012), Playing the Victim (2006) and Yury’s Day (2008).
Serebrennikov currently works under the roof of the renowned Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. He also continues to stage plays for other theaters in the capital.
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