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Izobrazhaya zhertvu (2006) is a Russian movie. Kirill Serebrennikov has directed this movie. Yuriy Chursin,Vitaliy Khaev,Marat Basharov,Olga Demidova are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2006. Izobrazhaya zhertvu (2006) is considered one of the best Comedy movie in India and around the world.
PLAYING THE VICTIM is a dark comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Valya, a young student is earning money by representing victims of the crimes during various police investigation. After the criminal has been seized a special group headed by a police captain has to reconstruct the crime scene. The process itself is quite comic and senseless: the criminals are defined already, and everyone knows, that they will be prosecuted. However the regulations still require a special team to imitate the crime once again in the same surroundings. The criminal should fictionally kill the victim (represented by Valya) one more time to confirm their guilt. Valya is drowning in his absurd life going from one terrible crime scene to another. Suddenly he has a vision: his deceased father comes to him in his sleep and tells the scary truth- he was poisoned by his own wife and her lover, who is now Valya's uncle... After this, the whole system of values of Valya's world ...
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Really Something
Very interesting point of view from Kirill Serebrennikov to the theater play of Presnyakov brothers. This picture is definitely above the average movie that made in Russia. Casting is great, every Actor/Actress giving perfect performance. Young and talented Yuriy Chursin playing comic role in very serious way. Movie full of humor and hallucinate animate (black and white) kinda twisted moments that will give to younger audience lots of positive energy. Couple of scenes Monologues actually are unforgettable, Captan in the Japanise restaurant and scene in the swimming pool you'll love it. i'll have to add that movie contains very strong language and some male nudity. Very good cinematography (my opinion) concept is not very clear what makes the whole movie brilliant. This movie you can see not once. I recommend to watch it in a group. It is movie for a genre, because I'm in this genre it is fit for me. So bottom line if you young have scenes of humor and not afraid of unknown actors (accept of Lia Ahidjakova) this is movie for you.
Best Post-Soviet movie released so far
Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (Imitating a victim) is something Russian cinema lacked for many years already: a movie about life and people's way of living, which would be exactly truthful and give a sound explanation of why we are now what we are. The general plot is the Hamlet's story told in the modern Russian circumstances, which enables Serebrennikov and Presnyakovy bros. to show a tragedy of a man and his family as an illustration to the passionate monologues about the nation's past and present. Adding some hilarious and intelligent jokes, the creators give us a wonderful piece of tragicomedy, supported by a nearly perfect cast with Chursin acting brilliantly and the support (including the Soviet star Akhedzhakova) doing their job just as well. If not for weak promotion, this movie would have blown Russia away. Unfortunately, it seems that Imitating a victim will become the most overlooked Russian masterpiece ever. Note that the movie would be of doubtful use for non-Russians, though such a viewer may certainly expand his/her understanding of Russian modern culture and life as well as get some deep aesthetic pleasure.
To Be or Not to Be
Playing the Victim is much more than just modern remake of Hamlet turning Shakespearean classic drama into a black comedy. Young man Valya (Hamlet} works playing victims in reconstructions of crimes on murder sites. These reconstructions are in themselves absurdist comedies of highest order. One night Russian Hamlet Valya sees his father's ghost, or probably it was just a dream, who shares with Valya his suspicions that he was poisoned by his brother. After this all the hell breaks loose: one day reconstructing murder in Japanese restaurant, where a murderer had shot his school friend for telling some innocent joke, chief detective gives a great harangue that nation should play a good football then there will be an order in the country and there will be no crime. Valya returns home and at the family feast poisons his uncle, mother and his future bride Olya (this movie Ophelia) with sushi garnished with poisonous fish ordered in Japanese restaurant. And movie ends in reconstruction of Valya's crime by the other victim imitators.