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Acting
Mashkov's Platon: charming, terrifying, utterly magnetic
Direction
Lungin captures wild-west Moscow with operatic swagger
Cinematography
Gilded decay everywhere — Soviet brutalism meets nouveau riche excess

Director
Pavel Lungin
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