Yuri BYKOV Юрий БЫКОВ Youri BYKOV   Russia / France / Armenia, 2018, 119 mn  fiction

The Factory ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Завод    Factory  Zavod

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Plot synopsis

After a local oligarch purchases a factory in a small Russian town and announces its closure, the blue-collar workers decide to kidnap him in order to get what’s theirs.
A dilapidated industrial building stands in some godforsaken Russian town whose people it had employed before the winds changed its ownership from state regulation to capitalist privatization. When Konstantine Kalugine (Andrey Smolyakov), a local oligarch with links to the KGB and the political powers that be, announces the factory’s bankruptcy, a group of blue-collar workers who haven’t been paid for months conspire to kidnap him for ransom. Though inexperienced and disorganized, each of them is between a rock and a hard place, and they all have their own reasons for taking this fateful plunge.
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Commentaries and bibliography

Factory, Review, journaldemillau.fr, 2020

Factory, braquage à la russe, Review, Franceinfo, 2019

«Завод»: Пост-мета-классицизм Юрия Быкова, Василий СТЕПАНОВ, Review, seance.ru, 2019

Critique film: Factory de Yuriy Bykov, un thriller politique très tendu, Bazaart, Review, baz-art.org, 2019

Iurii Bykov: The Factory (Zavod, 2018), Daria EZEROVA, Review, Kinokultura, 2019

Les sept meilleurs films consacrés à la réalité russe, Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, Article, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2019

Yuri Bykov – Factory (Zavod), Jean-François DICKELI, Review, culturopoing.com, 2019

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Festival Univerciné Russe délocalisé à Pornic, Pornic (France), 2020

- Festival du cinéma russe d'Acigné, Rennes (France), 2020

- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2020

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2020

- Liège International Thriller Film Festival, Liege (Belgium), 2019

- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2019-07-24

- Festival du film policier de Beaune, Beaune (France), 2019

- Russian film festival in Paris, Paris (France), 2019

- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2019

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2019

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2019

- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2019

- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2019

- Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2019

- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), 2018

- Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2018

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