Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
Кирилл СЕРЕБРЕННИКОВ
Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
Russia, 2016, 118mn 
fiction
The Student
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Ученик

 

 Le Disciple

 Uchenik

 
Directed by : Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV (Кирилл СЕРЕБРЕННИКОВ)
Writing credits : Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV (Кирилл СЕРЕБРЕННИКОВ)
Based on a play by German playwright Marius Von Mayenburg
 
Cast
Viktoria ISAKOVA (Виктория ИСАКОВА)
Pyotr SKVORTSOV (Пётр СКВОРЦОВ)
Yulia AUG (Юлия АУГ)
Svetlana BRAGARNIK (Светлана БРАГАРНИК)
Aleksandr GORCHILIN (Александр ГОРЧИЛИН)
Aleksandra REVENKO (Александра РЕВЕНКО)
Anton VASILIEV (Антон ВАСИЛЬЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Vladislav OPELIANTS (Владислав ОПЕЛЬЯНЦ)
Production design : Tatyana DOLMATOVSKAYA (Татьяна ДОЛМАТОВСКАЯ), Yekaterina SHCHEGLOVA (Екатерина ЩЕГЛОВА)
Music : Ilya DEMUTSKIJ (Илья ДЕМУЦКИЙ)
Produced by : Yuri KOZYREV (Юрий КОЗЫРЕВ), Murad OSMANN (Мурад ОСМАНН), Ruslan SOROKIN (Руслан СОРОКИН), Ilya STEWART (Илья СТЮАРТ), Svetlana USTINOVA (Светлана УСТИНОВА)
Production : Кинокомпания Hype Film
Film revenue in Russia : 0.2418 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 13/10/2016
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Chapaev
Release date in France : 2016-11-23, Site

Awards :
Best music Ilya DEMUTSKIJ , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Svetlana BRAGARNIK , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
Award of Young critics "Golos" Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Yelena KORENEVA , Yulia AUG , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2017
Prix François Chalais Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2016
Best directing Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2016
Best actor Pyotr SKVORTSOV , Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2016
First prize Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2016

Plot synopsis
The film takes place in a modern-day Russian city and tells of the difficulties experienced by a schoolboy called Benjamin (played by Pyotr Skvortsov) and his relationship with his teachers, peers and single mother.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Le disciple (2016) [Kirill Serebrennikov], Julien MORVAN, Perestroikino, 2021
Le Disciple - la critique du film, Gérard CRESPO, Avoir-Alire, 2018
Kirill Serebrennikov: The Student (Uchenik, 2016), Otto BOELE, Kinokultura, 2017
Le Disciple (2016), Fritz LANGUEUR / Ether, senscritique.com, 2016
Le Disciple (2016)- Kirill Serebrennikov, Joël CHAPRON, MK2 Quai de Seine, 2016
Почему вам нужно посмотреть фильм «Ученик» Кирилла Серебренникова, Виктория ИСАКОВА, vogue.ru, 2016
Ученик (le disciple) : attention, religion !, Emmanuel GRYNSZPAN, grincine.blogspot.com, 2016
 
Venya’s studies of the Bible set him on a course of conflict with Biology teacher Elena in Kirill Serebrennikov’s scathing satire on fundamentalism. Source : https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=student

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Cycle Serebrennikov au Méliès, Montreuil (France), 2023
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2018
- Quinzaine du Cinéma Russe, Bourgouin Jallieu (France), 2017
- Regards sur le Cinéma Européen, Chalonnes sur Loire (France), 2017
- Days of Russian cinema, Aix les Bains (France), 2017
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2017
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2017
- Cinémas russes à Montauban, Montauban (France), 2017
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2017
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Transilvania International Film Festival : TIFF, Cluj Napoca (Romania), 2017
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2017
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2017
- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2017
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2017
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2017
- San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco (USA), 2017
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2016
- New Cinema Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2016
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2016
- Les rencontres des cinémas d'Europe, Aubenas (France), 2016
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2016
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2016
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2016
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2016-11-23
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2016
- Era New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw (Poland), 2016
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2016
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2016
- Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2016
- The Times BFI London Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2016

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