MOVIE · 2014

Leviathan

CrimeDrama141 min

Kolya, a car mechanic in a small town on Russia’s Barents Sea coast, is forced to fight for his home when the local mayor orders his house and land demolished. Aleksey Serebryakov is Kolya, an already strained family man whose standoff with city hall engulfs his wife and son. He calls in an old friend from Moscow, now a successful lawyer, to challenge the seizure. But Roman Madyanov’s mayor is a corrupt official with the machinery of local power behind him, turning a property dispute into a bitter contest over authority and what can be taken from an ordinary family.