''Malmkrog'' is a 2020 internationally co-produced
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Cristi Puiu
Cristi Puiu (; born 3 April 1967) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. With Anca Puiu and Alex Munteanu, in 2004 he founded a cinema production company, naming it Mandragora.
Early life, education and career
Cristian Emilian Puiu was ...
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Set in turn-of-the-20th-century Transylvania, at the snowy hillside manor of a blithe aristocrat named Nikolai (Frédéric Schulz-Richard), the film follows for nearly the entirety of its 200 minutes a series of winding conversations between a group of bourgeois elite—among them a Russian general's wife (Diana Sakalauskaité), a devout young Christian girl (Marina Palii), a Franco-Russian nobleman (Ugo Broussot), and a middle-aged woman (Agathe Bosch) whose pessimistic worldview seems to embody the essence of Solovyov's book.
The conversations always return to a central topic: whether one should adopt a non-violent approach to the organisation of society (Tolstoy's attitude, which Solovyov abhorred), or approach the duty of fighting war in a fervently committed, Christian spirit.
It was shown in the Encounters section at the
70th Berlin International Film Festival
The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival board: business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director ...
, where it also won the Best Director Award.
Cast
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Frédéric Schulz-Richard as Nikolai
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Agathe Bosch as Madeleine
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Marina Palii as Olga
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Diana Sakalauskaité as Ingrida
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Ugo Broussot as Edouard
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István Téglás as István
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Zoe Puiu as Zoechka
References
External links
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2020 films
2020 drama films
Romanian drama films
2020s Hungarian-language films
2020s French-language films
2020s Russian-language films
2020s German-language films
Films directed by Cristi Puiu
Films set in country houses
2020 multilingual films
Romanian multilingual films
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