Minotaur
2026

Minotaur

In 2022 Russia, marital suspicion spirals into violence as corporate expediency and state coercion close in. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s darkly majestic modern noir finds the same dehumanising logic at work in marriage, business and government.

Director

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Runtime

141 Minutes

Country

France, Germany, Latvia

Classification

Unclassified 15+

Andrey Zvyagintsev recasts noir through the anxieties of the present with this darkly majestic tale of suspicion, murder and institutional rot. In 2022 Russia, transport-company boss Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov) suspects his wife Galina (Iris Lebedeva) of an affair just as the state demands workers for its war in Ukraine. As marital suspicion curdles into violence, Gleb moves through a world where corporate expediency and government coercion increasingly operate by the same chilling logic, reducing human lives to problems to be managed. Zvyagintsev’s immaculate compositions transform offices, restaurants and modernist luxury into a dehumanised labyrinth of power and corruption, finding contemporary unease in the collision of private paranoia and institutional amorality. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes and the Sydney Film Prize at Sydney Film Festival and based on the 1969 film The Unfaithful Wife by Claude Chabrol.

“Steely and immaculately composed.”

Screen International

“Scorching noir intrigue.”

The Guardian

Cannes - Grand Prix

Sydney - Sydney Film Prize

Melbourne

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Film Credits

Director

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Year

2026

Country

France, Germany & Latvia

Language

Russian

Subtitles

English

Type

Feature Fiction

Program Strand

World Cinema

Producer

Nathanaël Karmitz & Charles Gillibert

Writer

Simon Lyashenko & Zvyagintsev

Cinematographer

Mikhail Krichman

Editor

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cast

Dmitriy Mazurov & Iris Lebedeva

Music

Evgueni Galperine & Sasha Galperine

Film Source

Palace Films

Genre

Drama, Politics & Thriller

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