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.

2026
Minotaur
Minotaur
Director
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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