{"id":41536,"date":"2026-11-05T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/film\/leviathan\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:48:38","slug":"leviathan","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/film\/leviathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviathan"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a remote coastal town on the Barents Sea, in the far north of Russia, car mechanic Kolia is trying to build a simple life with his wife Lilya and his son Roma. But when the corrupt mayor, Vadim Sergeyich, attempts to expropriate his house, garage and land, Kolia refuses to give in without a fight. With the help of his childhood friend and lawyer Dmitri, he takes on the local council. What begins as a legal dispute escalates into a hopeless confrontation with a system in which political power, corruption and religious hypocrisy go hand in hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Leviathan<\/em> (2014), Andrey Zvyagintsev created one of the most impressive and unsparing films about contemporary Russia. Inspired by the biblical story of Job, he shows how an ordinary man is slowly crushed by forces against which he has virtually no defence. The title refers both to the biblical sea monster and to the all-powerful state, which can destroy the lives of its citizens at will.<\/p>\n

Since his award-winning debut The Return (2003), Zvyagintsev has been one of the leading auteurs of contemporary Russian cinema. His films explore the fragility of human relationships in the face of social structures in which power, guilt and moral responsibility are in constant conflict. With Leviathan<\/em>, Zvyagintsev delivers an absolute masterpiece: a chilling indictment of corruption, the abuse of power and the suffocating grip of church and state on the individual. More than a decade later, Leviathan<\/em> has lost none of its power or relevance. The film takes on a particular topicality due to Zvyagintsev\u2019s exile in France and his return with Minotaur<\/em> (2026), also screening at Budascoop.<\/p>\n

The film won the award for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for an Oscar in the same category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41537,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41536","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/41536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/film"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/41536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}