Petrov's Flu
Feverish and imaginative story by Russian dissident Kirill Serebrennikov (Leto) about a day in the life of a comic book artist in post-Soviet Russia.
Please note that this film is in Russian and English, with Dutch subtitles.
With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Based on the novel THE PETROVS IN AND AROUND THE FLU by Alexey Salnikov.
Kirill Serebrennikov, Germany, France, Switzerland, 2021, 145 min. Russian & English spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Yuriy Borisov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Yuliya Peresild, Chulpan Khamatova, Aleksandra Revenko.