Playing the Victim

Playing the Victim

2006 · 97 min · RU · 6.7 (46 votes)
Dir. Kirill Serebrennikov · Starring Yuriy Chursin, Vitaliy Khaev, Aleksandr Ilyin Jr, Marat Basharov, Olga Demidova, Anna Mikhalkova · Music Alexandr Manotskov
ComedyDrama

A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.

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This film feels like a darkly funny, existential dive into the absurdities of modern life. It's a quirky, unsettling character study that leaves you pondering the nature of self and the search for meaning in unexpected places.

awkwarddarkly comicunsettlingquirkysteadyindie comedycharacter studyoffbeatdark humoridentityexistentialismlonelinessabsurdity
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