Malmkrog (2020)

Directed by

Cristi Puiu

Genre

drama film

Country

Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Romania

Runtime

3h 21m

Rated

12

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the winter of 1900, a group of wealthy guests gather at a Transylvanian manor. They spend almost the entire film debating whether to pursue non-violent social change or to fight with Christian fervor.

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What happens

Malmkrog is a 2020 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Cristi Puiu. Set in turn-of-the-20th-century Transylvania, at the snowy hillside manor of a blithe aristocrat named Nikolai (Frédéric Schulz-Richard), the film follows for nearly the entirety of its 200 minutes a series of winding conversations between a group of bourgeois elite—among them a Russian general's wife (Diana Sakalauskaité), a devout young Christian girl (Marina Palii), a Franco-Russian nobleman (Ugo Broussot), and a middle-aged woman (Agathe Bosch) whose pessimistic worldview seems to embody the essence of Solovyov's book. The conversations always return to a central topic: whether one should adopt a non-violent approach to the organisation of society (Tolstoy's attitude, which Solovyov abhorred), or approach the duty of fighting war in a fervently committed, Christian spirit. It was shown in the Encounters section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, where it also won the Best Director Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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