Playing the Victim

Playing the Victim

Izobrazhaya zhertvu
🎞️ Movie 95 min RU
โ˜… 7.1 /10 2006

PLAYING THE VICTIM is a dark comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Valya, a young student is earning money by representing victims of the crimes during various police investigation. After the criminal has been seized a special group headed by a police captain has to reconstruct the crime scene. The process itself is quite comic and senseless: the criminals are defined already, and everyone knows, that they will be prosecuted. However the regulations still require a special team to imitate the crime once again in the same surroundings. The criminal should fictionally kill the victim (represented by Valya) one more time to confirm their guilt. Valya is drowning in his absurd life going from one terrible crime scene to another. Suddenly he has a vision: his deceased father comes to him in his sleep and tells the scary truth- he was poisoned by his own wife and her lover, who is now Valya's uncle... After this, the whole system of values of Valya's world collapses. He will become himself the criminal who will have to confess while somebody else represents his victims.

Cast

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Yuriy Chursin
Valya
Vitaliy Khaev
Vitaliy Khaev
Captain
Marat Basharov
Marat Basharov
Karas
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Olga Demidova
Woman cafe worker
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Marina Golub
Valya's mother
Anna Mikhalkova
Anna Mikhalkova
Lyuda
Fyodor Dobronravov
Fyodor Dobronravov
Valya's father
Fyodor Dobronravov
Fyodor Dobronravov
Uncle Petia
Andrey Fomin
Andrey Fomin
Sysoev
Elena Morozova
Elena Morozova
Olya
Natalya Mokritskaya
Natalya Mokritskaya
Woman working in swimming pool
Aleksandr Manotskov
Aleksandr Manotskov
Composer
Sergey Mokritskiy
Sergey Mokritskiy
Cinematographer