Playing the Victim
4/15/2009
7:00 PM
Sarratt Cinema
Presented by: Irina Makoveeva, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian in the Germanic and Slavic Languages Department and Leah Marcus, Edwin Mims Professor of English & Director of the Program in Jewish Studies
Russia (2006) Dir: Kirill Serebrennikov.
This black-humored adaptation of Hamlet follows a young Muscovite who “plays the victim” in video re-enactments of murders under investigations. As if being “killed” isn’t bad enough, he also faces an oppressive home life and the reproaches of his dead father’s ghost. Winner of the Grand Prize at the first Rome International Film Festival. DVD. Russian with English subtitles. Not rated. 100 minutes. Funding provided in part by the Germanic & Slavic Languages Department.