Title: The Student
Original Title: (M)uchenik
Year: 2016
Info
- Country: Russia
- Language: Russian
- Length: 118 Minutes (1 hour 58 min)
- Genre: Drama
- Studios: Hype Film
- Distributor: Alfhaville Cinema
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: March 03 2017
- United States: April 21 2017
Plot
Robert Desnos Veniamin (Pyotr Skvortsov) is a Russian teenager immersed in a mystical crisis that has convinced him that the world has no morals and is surrendered to evil. Robert begins to live his life in a way that leaves everyone around him bewildered. His mother, his classmates and the whole institute are always surprised by his conservative questions: why is the theory of evolution taught in class? Why do girls wear bikinis in swimming class? Adults do not know what to do with a boy who lives his life guided by the Bible. His biology teacher, Elena Krasnova (Viktoriya Isakova) will be the only one who will dare to challenge him new way of living life.
Cast
Director:
Veniamin Yuzhin
Elena Krasnova
Inga Yuzhina
Lidiya Tkacheva
Grigoriy Zaytsev
Oleg Ivanovich Selnenko
Lyudmila Stukalina
Videos
February 13 2017
'The Student' English Subtitles Trailer
February 13 2017
Photos
Trivia
His debut
Russian writer-director Kirill Serebrennikov makes his Cannes debut with a dark parable about religious fundamentalism.
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