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The Student
Directed by
Kirill Serebrennikov
Not Rated
2016
1h 58m
Drama
6.9
86%
67%
6.5
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Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
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Cast of The Student
Petr Skvortsov
Veniamin
Yuliya Aug
Mother
Viktoriya Isakova
Elena Lvovna Krasnova, Biology Teacher
Anton Vasilyev
Physical Education Teacher
Aleksandr Gorchilin
Grisha
Aleksandra Revenko
Lida Tkachenko
Svetlana Bragarnik
School Director
Nikolai Roshchin
Father Vsevolod
Irina Rudnitskaya
History Teacher
Marina Kleshchyova
School Caretaker
Kirill Serebrennikov
Director / Screenplay
Ilya Dzhincharadze
Co-Producer
Anastasiya Zhidkova
Executive Producer
Diana Safarova
Producer
Sergey Shtern
Co-Producer
Guè
Executive Producer
Claudio Bellante
Co-Producer
Fabrizio Conte
Associate Producer
Ilya Stewart
Producer
Svetlana Ustinova
Co-Producer
The Student Ratings & Reviews
The Young Folks
Gary Shannon
Ironically allows antireligious pedagogics and dogmas overtake [Kirill Serebrennikov's] story, itself a cautionary tale on the dangers of pedagogical and dogmatic thinking.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
For most of its running time, The Student is immensely compelling, a terrifying ride between hothouse realism and dreamy metaphor.
Film Inquiry
Chloe Walker
The Student is a lively piece that grips from beginning to end. It's full of intensity, thoughtful discussion, righteous anger, and interesting, dynamic characters.
Newcity
Ray Pride
As parables about fundamentalism go, The Student is bold and compelling... Tall, with the brooding, intent looks of a teen Michael Shannon, Petr Skvortsov is a superb incarnation of both zealot and charlatan,
It's Just Movies
Ron Wilkinson
It is humanity against the machine and guess who is winning.
Film Threat
Filipe Freitas
Beautifully shot... The Student is a purposely exaggerated satire that feels simultaneously mindful and nerve-wracking.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
His social criticism can be heavy-handed, but his direction of actors (many of whom had never appeared in a movie before this one) is remarkable; Pyotr Skvortsov is terrifying in the lead.
SF Weekly
Jeffrey Edalatpour
Scene after scene, we watch Venya's strange charisma grow as his dogmatic fervor builds up to an infectious fever pitch.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
A serious, sharply mounted drama that gets more engrossing as it moves along.
PopMatters
Elena Razlogova
Uchenik eventually tells us little about the current state of high school education or religious orthodoxy in Russia.
The Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
The narrative starts out in the realm of unfussy realism and grows blacker, richer and more surreal.
The Film Stage
Josh Hamm
The Student is an unpleasant film filled with thinly drawn, unpleasant characters and caricatures, and for all of its unwavering rigor and striking composition, never mounts a new critique of religion or fosters a story to sustain its plot.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Kirill Serebrennikov's study of a problem teenager's religious awakening is as aesthetically kinetic as it is intellectually rigorous.
Willamette Week
AP Kryza
Half the film comprises a teenager screaming Bible verses, making it as much an endurance test as an invigorating cautionary tale.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Serebrennikov deploys ornery irony in this scathing critique of a self-radicalized fundamentalist and local unbelievers.
Paste Magazine
Tim Grierson
The jet-black satire The Student only slowly makes its intentions known, but the deliberateness is crucial to our understanding of what Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov is after.
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