The Student

2016
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Title: The Student

Original Title: (M)uchenik

Year: 2016

Info

  • Country: Russia
  • Language: Russian
  • Length: 118 Minutes (1 hour 58 min)
  • Genre: Drama
  • Studios: Hype Film
  • Distributor: Alfhaville Cinema
  • Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

  • UK: March 03 2017
  • United States: April 21 2017

Plot

Robert Desnos Veniamin (Pyotr Skvortsov) is a Russian teenager immersed in a mystical crisis that has convinced him that the world has no morals and is surrendered to evil. Robert begins to live his life in a way that leaves everyone around him bewildered. His mother, his classmates and the whole institute are always surprised by his conservative questions: why is the theory of evolution taught in class? Why do girls wear bikinis in swimming class? Adults do not know what to do with a boy who lives his life guided by the Bible. His biology teacher, Elena Krasnova (Viktoriya Isakova) will be the only one who will dare to challenge him new way of living life.

Cast

Pyotr Skvortsov

Pyotr Skvortsov

Veniamin Yuzhin

Viktoriya Isakova

Viktoriya Isakova

Elena Krasnova

Yuliya Aug

Yuliya Aug

Inga Yuzhina

Aleksandra Revenko

Aleksandra Revenko

Lidiya Tkacheva

Aleksandr Gorchilin

Aleksandr Gorchilin

Grigoriy Zaytsev

Anton Vasilev

Anton Vasilev

Oleg Ivanovich Selnenko

Svetlana Bragarnik

Svetlana Bragarnik

Lyudmila Stukalina

Videos

'The Student' 'Excerpt' Clip 1:40

'The Student' 'Excerpt' Clip

February 13 2017

Photos

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Trivia

His debut

Russian writer-director Kirill Serebrennikov makes his Cannes debut with a dark parable about religious fundamentalism.

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