Highly recommended for any Russia-watcher any person interested in the way in which Russian society is moving forward or not also a great indictment of the diplomatic corps in this case the French but as mentioned before probably would be the same with many other countries.Brought to you by Tin Mirror Productions, in a society where each clone life is disposable, one clone must fight for his continued existence. The use of streets and locales is excellent too you really get a sense of Siberia I do not know exactly where it was filmed I see from the credits many Lithuanian names and maybe this indicates some of it might have been filmed in Lithuania but in the credits it also mentions Russia so I do not quite understand how they could've got the green light to film this in Russia but maybe when I find out more I will come back and correct if I got the wrong end of the stick. See him in Право на «Ліво» (2012) The Polish actress here Joanna Kulig is thoroughly excellent maybe a tad too torrid for the role and she does the misery bit to a tee The main FSB baddie of the peace Michael Gor a true muscovite actor is also really excellent here good sense of menace All in all when I realised it was the tale of the story I'd heard on the radio only a few months ago maybe even a few weeks I thought oh no they are going to make a mess of this and then I realized they hadn't this is really really gripping. As regards the acting the main protagonist Gilles Lellouche is fairly good here but personally I have seen him mostly in comedy and he has a pi.-taker face which doesn't really suit drama you expect him to say something inappropriate at any time and when it comes to crying scenes as someone else has pointed out he doesn't pass muster. So here they got the storyline spot-on and added dramatic events they got the dialogue really good in French and Russian they used actors who could possibly be seen as Russians and many of them actually were Russians. As we said before this could be Czarist Russia and or any other fine work Georgian Stalin produced in his finest hour. Insofar as I know the man to whom this happened still does not know exactly to this day who was responsible but it is pretty much give or take what is recounted here. The drummed-up charges and the Kompromat (cool terrifying word) were described pretty much as were. Two of the more dramatic events in the film I do not recall happened in real life or the "help" but then again the filmmakers here had to have a punchy story and they certainly do. I was fortunate enough to catch the original account of the real hero of this piece the Alliance Française Director to whom this story really happened on radio. It also shows on the other hand the spinelessness of the French diplomatic corps in this case but admittedly could be cut and pasted to almost any diplomatic corps anywhere in the world at any time. It basically shows institutions functioning the way they were under the Czars of old times (The Cheka begat the NKVD which begat The KGB which begat the current FSB) the modus operandi has not really shifted much. I am personally a self-avowed Russia watcher and have been since the 70s so anything to do with Russia especially society and the way in which it has evolved in some ways and not in others is of utmost interest to me So this one here was always going to be of great interest.
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