Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, winner of the best screenplay honor at this year’s Cannes film festival, is finally getting a release in Russia. The drama, a re-telling of the biblical story of Job set in modern-day Russia, had been read by many as a allegorical attack on Vladimir Putin’s regime. Russia’s minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky snubbed the Cannes premiere of the film, telling official news agency RIA Novosti that he “did not like it.” The film has been an international sales hit, with Pyramid International closing deals for more than 40 territories after Leviathan’s Cannes debut.
