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Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes87%
Metacritic53/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
122 audience votes
Key crew
- Kantemir BalagovDirector
- Kantemir BalagovScreenplay
- Anton YarushScreenplay
Cast
- Darya ZhovnerIlana 'Ila' Koft
- Olga DragunovaAdina Koft
- Veniamin KacDavid Koft
- Nazir ZhukovZalim
- Timur ShidginovTima
- Anna LevitLeya
- Evgeniy SannikovZhenya
- Artyom TsypinAvi Koft
- Vladimir MikhelsonRabbi
- Egor ShevyakovDancing Guy
- Oksana KarpenkoCast
- Alexander ZolotukhinCast