6.5
A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.
Yuliya Aug
Mother
Petr Skvortsov
Veniamin
Aleksandra Revenko
Lida Tkachenko
Anton Vasilyev
Physical Education Teacher
Viktoriya Isakova
Krasnova
Svetlana Bragarnik
School Director
Irina Rudnitskaya
History Teacher
Marina Kleshchyova
School Bursar
Nikolai Roshchin
Father Vsevolod
Aleksandr Gorchilin
Grisha
Director, Screenplay
Kirill Serebrennikov
Theatre Play
Marius von Mayenburg
May 13, 2016
"The Russian auteur’s journey into the dark recesses of a fanatical mindset provides religious extremism with a truly terrifying façade – the unbridled and fearless arrogance of a disenfranchised teenage boy..."
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