Petrov's Flu

Petrov's Flu (2021)

Петровы в гриппе

With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be extraordinary.

Date of release
2021-09-09
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (105)
Runtime
2h 25m
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction, Comedy
Director
Kirill Serebrennikov

Casting

Interesting facts

Petrov's Flu is a 2021 drama film written and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov based on Alexey Salnikov's novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Vulcan Award for cinematography.

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.

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

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