Synopsis
A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes87%
Metacritic76/100
172 audience votes
Key crew
- Kirill SerebrennikovDirector
- Ilya DemutskyOriginal Music Composer
- Kirill SerebrennikovScreenplay
Cast
- Petr SkvortsovVeniamin
- Yuliya AugMother
- Viktoriya IsakovaElena Lvovna Krasnova, Biology Teacher
- Anton VasilyevPhysical Education Teacher
- Aleksandr GorchilinGrisha
- Aleksandra RevenkoLida Tkachenko
- Svetlana BragarnikSchool Director
- Nikolai RoshchinFather Vsevolod
- Irina RudnitskayaHistory Teacher
- Marina KleshchyovaSchool Caretaker
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Themes
high schoolbiologyclassbibleprotestcondombikiniswimming poolmodestyteacherrussian orthodox churchantisemitism