International Features Competition

Petrov's Flu

Петровы в гриппе

Swiss Premiere

Kirill Serebrennikov

Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland

2021, 145min

Fiction, Drama

VO. Russian

ST. English, French

With

Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Aleksandr Ilin

In this virtuoso trip, Serebrennikov unfolds long sequence shots, live light changes, without recourse to any computer-generated images, to totally immerse the viewer in a reconstruction of his Soviet childhood. A punk opera from a filmmaker under house arrest.

Serebrennikov was the artistic director of the Gogol-Center for which he adapted Alexey Salnikov’s best-selling novel The Petrovs for the theatre. In this virtuoso trip, he unfolds long sequence shots, live lighting changes, without recourse to any computer-generated images, in order to totally immerse the spectator in a reconstruction of his Soviet childhood. Known for his unexpected casting, his choices are like “very precise sniper shots”, resulting in this punk opera from a filmmaker under house arrest.

Direction

Kirill Serebrennikov

Screenplay

Alexey Salnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov

Image

Vladislav Opelyants

Editing

Yurii Karih

Sound

Boris Voyt

Music

Aidar Salakhov

Production

Hype Film (Pavel Burya, Ilya Dzhincharadze, Murad Osmann, Ilya Stewart)

Co-Production

Arte France Cinéma (Olivier Père), Sovereign Films (Andreas Roald), Bord Cadre Films (Dan Wechsler), Logical Pictures (Eric Tavitian), Charades (Pierre Mazars), Razor Film (Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul), Jamal Zeinal Zade

With

Semyon Serzin, Chulpan Khamatova, Aleksandr Ilin, Nikolay Kolyada, Vladislav Semiletkov, Yuliya Peresild, Ivan Dorn, Semyon Steinberg

World sales

Charades

Distribution

Xenix Filmdistribution GmbH