The producer and director of Russia’s Golden Globe-winning film Leviathan are hoping for another victory at next month’s Oscars. Andrey Zvyaginstev’s film, set in Russia and a thoroughly contemporary Russian context but inspired by a true story from America’s Midwest, which won best foreign language film honors Sunday night, is the first Russian movie to win a Golden Globe since Sergey Bondarchuk’s War and Peace in 1969. Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, who also produced Stalingrad, the team behind Leviathan is now hoping to go to win an Oscar for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards ceremony Feb. 22 at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater.
