What to watch in the cinema right now: Lado Kvatania’s first detective thriller “Execution”

The detective thriller “Execution” is released – the debut feature of Lado Kvatania, the author of clips for Husky, Leningrad, Oxxxymiron and Dolphin, shot by Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann and Pavel Burya Hype Film. For the audience, this premiere is more than long-awaited – firstly, the film has already received two awards at the film festival in Reims (France) and was shown at festivals in the USA, Spain and the Netherlands, and secondly, this is perhaps a month and a half that you really want to see on the big screen. first movie.

“Execution” chronicles the Soviet inspector Issa Davydov (Niko Tavadze) for particularly important cases and the serial murder case that was investigated and officially closed for ten years. Now a new situation arises in him – a surviving victim. In order to correct the mistakes of the past, to understand the situation, and to justify himself in the eyes of the justice system, which he condoned for the lack of evidence, the investigator is urgently obliged to go to the crime scene. .

The main roles in the film were played by Yulia Snigir, Victoria Tolstoganova, Daniil Spivakovsky, Evgeny Tkachuk, Aglaya Tarasova and others, for which the composer Kirill Richter, one of the most prominent representatives of Russian neoclassicism, wrote music. The director, by the way, talked about his debut in an interview with Russian Esquire: “I used this genre element (the story of years of search for a maniac – Note. ed.) only to show the deconstruction of a person who was full of ideals at the beginning of his journey but betrayed them all in the end. After all, a person who encounters the system sooner or later becomes a part of it. This is inevitable and does not depend on what kind of system it is: theatre, police, company. For me, that’s the main theme of the movie, and it’s not the psychology or pathology of some of the creatures that emerge in this genre—not to mention the names of the maniacs.