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Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Kapitan Volkonogov bezhal

2021

Aleksey Chupov, Natalya Merkulova

Yuriy Borisov, Vladimir Yepifantsev, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Natalya Kudryashova ...

6.3

462

Thriller. Drama Fast-paced story of pre-death repentance marathon for the Captain of the National Security Service (NKVD) Fedor Volkonogov set against the backdrop of 1938 political persecutions in USSR.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"The tradition of Dostoevskian angst and Gogolian absurdity provide plausible backbone for Captain Volkonogov Escaped, a powerful and troubling drama about the Stalin era."
		Xan Brooks The Guardian	"Chupov and Merkulova’s handling of the material is almost playful, choosing to frame Stalin’s Russia as nightmarish deadpan comedy (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Anna Smith Deadline	"Inventive and disturbing (...) This brutal dystopian horror-thriller-drama finds a glimpse of redemption, although the sad central theme remains that of many a war film: man’s inhumanity to man."
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"'Captain Volkogonov Escaped' is so attuned to the physical that the more metaphysical aspects of Volkogonov’s journey are underdeveloped by comparison"
		David Katz Cineuropa	"A Stalin-era political thriller with the sober intensity of a Bourne film"
		Carlos Aguilar The Playlist	"Merkulova and Chupov don’t capture their elaborately ambiguous thesis on good and evil via dialogue but in a riveting and ferocious pilgrimage that culminates on a savagely spiritual note."
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Propulsive and tightly constructed (...) Aficionados of Russian literature will note the film’s thematic similarity to works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, with the emphasis on redemption, as well as the absurdism of Nikolai Gogol"

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