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

The Factory ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Завод    L'Usine  Zavod

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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Selected in the following festivals :

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

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

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

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

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