Revenge is a dish best served Russian — cold, calculated, and completely unhinged.
Contemporary Russia. A humiliated bank executive takes revenge on his adulterous wife and corrupt employers.
Acting
Stychkin's simmering desperation as a man unraveling thread by thread.
Direction
Shengelia's clinical observation of Russian corporate hellscape.
Director
Giorgi Shengelia
Evgeniy Stychkin
Igor Kotik
Ekaterina Guseva
Vika
Ilya Shakunov
Andrei Dmitrievich, Vicki's husband
Yuriy Osipov
in the store employee
Vladislav Abashin
Saidulin
Andrei Tashkov
Vladimir Niskov
Gennady Mikhailovich
Valentina Ananina
old woman in the village Moshkin
Alexander Vasilevsky
Saschok
Rostislav Bershauer
ATS employee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Russia's oil-boom 2000s, the film captures the era's moral vacuum as new money corrupted old structures.
Director Giorgi Shengelia, Georgian-born, was blacklisted by Soviet cinema for years — this was his bitter comeback.
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