The Student(2017)

Name: The Student
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Genre: Drama
Released: Apr 14, 2017
Cast: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug, Aleksandr Gorchilin

Under the Milky Way

1h 58m
- Drama

Release Date: Apr 14, 2017

Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.

Release Details

Original Release | Apr 14, 2017 | Limited (Under The Milky Way)

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2025-01-31T12:28:27.309Z

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$51
Total US & Canada:
$1,126
Total International
$316,997
Total Worldwide:
$318,123

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Director & Top Cast

Kirill Serebrennikov
Director

Pyotr Skvortsov
Veniamin Yuzhin

Viktoriya Isakova
Elena Krasnova

Yuliya Aug
Inga Yuzhina

Aleksandr Gorchilin
Grigoriy Zaytsev

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Russia

Language: Russian

Summaries

Storyline

After Veniamin's mother receives a call from school reporting her son's refusal to participate in mixed swimming lessons, she first suspects her teenager of being shy and derides his claim that it is "against his religion." As Venya is finally exempted by the school's devout principal, he grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority. Challenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community. At a time when arguments over the teaching of religion in public schools are prominent in the media, this wildly escalating classroom drama - based on a play by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg - serves as a frightening cautionary tale. — Under The Milky Way In the grip of a spiritual crisis, Veniamin turns her mother, her classmates and the whole school upside down when she emits a series of radical questions such as why girls should wear bikinis in swimming practice? Should the theory of evolution be taught in the natural science class?

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The Student(2017)

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Director & Top Cast

Kirill Serebrennikov

Pyotr Skvortsov

Viktoriya Isakova

Yuliya Aug

Aleksandr Gorchilin

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