Russia, 2022. Gleb is a prosperous businessman who has built a life designed to keep uncertainty at bay: a stylish home, a successful transport company, a wife and son. But the war in Ukraine reaches his doorstep when local officials demand that he supply workers for the front. At the same time, doubts about his wife Galina’s fidelity begin to consume him. Soon, the instinct to protect what is his becomes something considerably darker.

In his first feature since Loveless, Andrey Zvyagintsev returns with a chilling portrait of a man — and a society — unravelling under the pressure of fear, entitlement and power. Loosely reworking a marital thriller by Claude Chabrol, Minotaur moves between domestic suspicion and political complicity with a carefully controlled sense of dread. Its immaculate surfaces conceal a world where private betrayal and public violence speak the same language. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, this is Zvyagintsev at his most mercilessly perceptive.

Film information

Year: 2026
Country: France, Latvia, Germany
Runtime: 141 minutes
Language: Russian with English subtitles

Cast & Crew

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Screenplay: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko
Producer: Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Marco Perego, Andrey Zvyagintsev
Executive Producer: Michael Cerenzie, Michael Paletta, Kristina Poli, Dmitry Saltykovsky, Patrick Sutter
Cast: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Boris Kudrin, Varvara Shmykova
Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman
Editing: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Production Designer: Masha Slavina, Andrey Ponkratov
Costume Designer: Uliana Polianskaia
Sound: Andrey Dergachev
Original Score: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Production Company: MK Productions, CG Cinéma, Forma Pro Films, Razor Film Produktion