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'Petrov's Flu' is a 2021 crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov based on Alexey Salnikov's novel 'The Petrovs In and Around the Flu' ('Petrovy v grippe i vokrug nego'). In June 2021, the film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Vulcan Award for cinematography.

Plot



Petrov is an auto mechanic in post-Soviet Yekaterinburg. He is separated from his wife, a librarian, and together they have a son. Just before the start of the new year, his family gets sick with the flu. Then he meets a trickster named Igor who can mix the world of the living and the dead. The Petrov family begin to suffer surrealistic hallucinations and the line between reality and hallucination begins to disappear.

Cast



* Semyon Serzin as 'Petrov'

*Chulpan Khamatova as 'Nurlinsa Petrova', Petrov's estranged wife

* Vladislav Semiletkov as 'Petrov's son'

* Yuri Kolokolnikov as 'Igor Artyukhin', Petrov's neighbor and the trickster. His initials in Russian spell out "Hades".

* Ivan Dorn as 'Sergei', Petrov's friend, and an aspiring writer

* Yuri Borisov as 'Sasha', Petrov's childhood friend

* Yulia Peresild as 'Marina', the Snow Maiden from Petrov's childhood memory

* Aleksandr Ilyin as 'Viktor Mikhailovich', Marina's brother

Additional credited roles were played by Husky, Timofey Tribuntsev and Marina Kleshchyova.

Production



The first plans to make a film based on Salnikov's novel were announced in May 2019, with Serebrennikov helming the project. Serebrennikov wrote the screenplay for the film while under house arrest. Filming began in October 2019, took place in Moscow and Yekaterinburg and was finished in January 2020.

The film was Ivan Dorn's first successful venture into cinema. According to Serebrennikov, "Dorn was a "wonderful dramatic artist" with "an interest in the paradoxical, energy, control of his tools, an ability to exactly recreate the image he wanted to impress on his audience, and a very deliberate approach to art." According to Dorn, he had tried and failed twice to venture into cinema, but Serebrennikov encouraged him to try once more. Dorn also announced that with this film he would conclude his musical career and begin his acting career.

Distribution was provided by Hype Production, and several French, Swiss, German and American production companies participated in the production of the film.

Reception



'Petrov's Flu' has an approval rating of 89% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 28 reviews, and an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critical consensus states, "A gritty Russian satire with a big, beating heart, 'Petrov's Flu' is highly contagious". It also has a score of 74 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

2021 Golden Unicorn Awards: nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress awards.[https://www.goldenunicornaward.com/nominations&winners?year=2021 Golden Unicorn Awards, Nominees & Winners, 2021]

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