Where to Watch Izobrazhaya zhertvu (2006) in the US

What it's about

PLAYING THE VICTIM is a dark comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Valya, a young student is earning money by representing victims of the crimes during various police investigation. After the criminal has been seized a special group headed by a police captain has to reconstruct the crime scene. The process itself is quite comic and senseless: the criminals are defined already, and everyone knows, that they will be prosecuted. However the regulations still require a special team to imitate the crime once again in the same surroundings. The criminal should fictionally kill the victim (represented by Valya) one more time to confirm their guilt. Valya is drowning in his absurd life going from one terrible crime scene to another. Suddenly he has a vision: his deceased father comes to him in his sleep and tells the scary truth- he was poisoned by his own wife and her lover, who is now Valya's uncle... After this, the whole system of values of Valya's world collapses. He will become himself the criminal who will have to confess while somebody else represents his victims.

Cast and crew

Director

Kirill Serebrennikov

Writer

Oleg Presnyakov, Vladimir Presnyakov

Starring

Yuriy Chursin, Vitaliy Khaev, Marat Basharov

Details

Release date

Jun 8, 2006

Language

Russian

Country

Russia

Awards

7 wins & 17 nominations

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