The Student
The hypocrisy of religion and society that challenges all of us.
Production
Budget
$1 000 000
Revenue
$318 123
Director
Scenario
Composer
Ilya Demutsky
Producer
Diana Safarova
Actors
Petr Skvortsov
Veniamin
Yuliya Aug
Mother
Viktoriya Isakova
Elena Lvovna Krasnova, Biology Teacher
Anton Vasilyev
Physical Education Teacher
Aleksandr Gorchilin
Grisha
Aleksandra Revenko
Lida Tkachenko
Svetlana Bragarnik
School Director
Nikolai Roshchin
Father Vsevolod
Short description
A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.
What's left behind the scenes
- The original screenplay was based on the play "The Martyr" by the famous German playwright Marius von Mayenburg.
- The setting was moved from Germany to a Russian context, specifically to an ordinary public school.
- The film was shot in August 2015 in Kaliningrad.
- Scenes featuring the sea were filmed in the town of Baltiysk.
- The premiere of the original production of "The Martyr" took place in 2012 at the famous Schaubühne theater in Berlin, and in 2015, the play was staged by Serebrennikov at the Gogol Center in Moscow.
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