Highlights
LIMONOV: THE BALLAD
Swiss Premiere
Kirill Serebrennikov
Italy, France, Spain
NEUROTIC BIOPIC
2024, 138'
VO. English
ST. French
With
Ben Whishaw, Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Emmanuel Carrère
In presence of Kirill Serebrennikov, Tuesday November 5.
A formidably staged evocation of the life of Russian poet and writer Eduard Limonov, whose political career oscillated between communism and the extreme right. Fascinating and disconcerting.
A troubled character with an elusive temperament, a frustrated poet in search of glory, a dissident turned nationalist, Eduard Limonov is a figure who seemed tailor-made for Kirill Serebrennikov's exuberant, profound cinema. Adapting Emmanuel Carrère's eponym novel, the Russian director once again deploys the kind of sweeping mise-en-scène that only he can, to trace the tumultuous political career of a controversial but no less fascinating figure. From Moscow to New York, via Paris, Limonov crosses the end of the 20st century as a critical and neurotic observer, constantly reviewing his position on the political chessboard. British actor Ben Whishaw brilliantly takes on the most complex of roles.
Damien Bordard
Damien Bordard
Direction
Kirill Serebrennikov
Screenplay
Pawel Pawlikowski, Ben Hopkins, Kirill Serebrennikov
Image
Roman Vasyanov
Editing
Yuriy Karikh
Sound
Boris Voyt
Production
Wildside (Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani), Chapter2 (Dimitri Rassam), Hype Studios (Ilya Stewart), Pathé (Ardavan Safaee)
With
Ben Whishaw, Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Emmanuel Carrère, Andrey Burkovskiy, Tomas Arana, Corrado Invernizzi, Evgeniy Mironov, Masha Mashkova
World sales
Vision Distribution
Tuesday 5 November |
20:30
