2023
Completed
EMPIRE V
Set in pre-war Moscow, the film is a pitch-black satire of contemporary Russia and its power elite. Based on a cult novel by Victor Pelevin and questioning the familiar tropes of the vampire genre, the film examines the step-by-step descent into the depths of the underworld and the limits one is willing to go to in order to belong to an elite über-race. Banned in Russia, the film is a cringe-inducing tombstone to Putin’s “evil empire”.
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