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An emphasis on the ruins of the recent past places Zvyagintsev’s film within a very interesting genre of post-Soviet films.
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Andrey Zvyagintsev’s film Leviathan explores the ‘symphonia’ of church and state in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In doing so it taps into a tradition in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema.