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Yuriy Chursin | ... |
Valya
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Vitaliy Khaev | ... |
Captain
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Marat Basharov | ... |
Karas
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Olga Demidova | ... |
Woman cafe worker
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Marina Golub | ... |
Valya's mother
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Anna Mikhalkova | ... |
Lyuda
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Fyodor Dobronravov | ... |
Valya's father / Uncle Petia
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Andrey Fomin | ... |
Sysoev
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Elena Morozova | ... |
Olya
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Natalya Mokritskaya | ... |
Woman working in swimming pool
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Igor Gasparyan | ... |
Zakirov
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Maksim Konovalov | ... |
Verkhushkin
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Aleksey Marchenko | ... |
Manager of Japanese restaurant
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Liya Akhedzhakova | ... |
Waitress in Japanese restaurant
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Aleksey Klimushkin | ... |
Nikolay
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Aleksandr Ilin | ... |
Seva
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Igor Khripunov |
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Anastasia Makrushina | ... |
Girl in a restaurant
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Sergey Medvedev |
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Directed by
Kirill Serebrennikov |
Written by
Oleg Presnyakov | ... | () |
Vladimir Presnyakov | ... | () |
Produced by
Natalya Mokritskaya | ... | producer |
Ulyana Saveleva | ... | producer |
Leonid Zagalsky | ... | producer |
Music by
Aleksandr Manotskov |
Cinematography by
Sergey Mokritskiy |
Editing by
Olga Grinshpun |
Casting By
Tatyana Komarova |
Visual Effects by
Kirill Kemnits | ... | visual effects artist |
Mikhail Malov | ... | visual effects producer |
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PLAYING THE VICTIM is a dark comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Valya, a young student is earning money by representing victims of the crimes during various police investigation. After the criminal has been seized a special group headed by a police captain has to reconstruct the crime scene. The process itself is quite comic and senseless: the criminals are defined already, and everyone knows, that they will be prosecuted. However the regulations still require a special team to imitate the crime once again in the same surroundings. The criminal should fictionally kill the victim (represented by Valya) one more time to confirm their guilt. Valya is drowning in his absurd life going from one terrible crime scene to another. Suddenly he has a vision: his deceased father comes to him in his sleep and tells the scary truth- he was poisoned by his own wife and her lover, who is now Valya's uncle... After this, the whole system of values of Valya's world collapses. He will become himself the criminal who will have to confess while somebody else represents his victims. Written by Anonymous |
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Movie Connections | Referenced in Oleg Tabakov (2018). See more » |