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Leviathan

2014 film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
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Summary

Leviathan is a film[1]. Leviathan ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,975 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film[3], Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film[4]
  • Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev[5]
  • Screenwriter: Andrey Zvyagintsev[6], Oleg Negin[7]
  • Composer: Philip Glass[8]
  • Genre: drama film[9], crime film[10]
  • Named after: Leviathan[11]
  • Cast member: Aleksei Serebryakov[12], Roman Madyanov[13], Vladimir Vdovichenkov[14], Elena Lyadova[15], Anna Ukolova[16], Aleksey Rozin[17], Valeriy Grishko[18], Margarita Shubina[19], Dmitry Bykovsky-Romashov[20], Igor Savochkin[21], Sergey Murzin[22], Marianna Shults[23], Aleksei Zharkov[24]
  • Producer: Alexander Rodnyansky[25], Sergey Melkumov[26]
  • Part of the series: BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century[27]
  • Production company: Non-Stop Production[28]
  • Director of photography: Mikhail Krichman[29]
  • Original language of film or TV show: Russian[30]
  • Commons category: Leviathan (2014 film)[31]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[32]
  • Review score: 8.6/10[33], 97%[34], 92/100[35], 7.6/10[36]
  • Color: color[37]
  • Country of origin: Russia[38]
  • Publication date: May 23, 2014[39], September 24, 2014[40], October 22, 2014[41], October 23, 2014[42], November 7, 2014[43]
  • Distributed by: Cirko Film[44]
  • Narrative location: Russia[45]
  • Official website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/leviathan/[46]
  • Filming location: Murmansk Oblast[47]
  • Main subject: alcoholism[48]
  • Facet of: Legal system of the Russian Federation[49], Russian Orthodox Church[50], Eastern Orthodox fundamentalism[51]
  • Participant in: 27th European Film Awards[52]

Why It Matters

Leviathan has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[53] Leviathan is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[54]

FAQs

What awards did Leviathan receive?

Honors received include Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film[3] and Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film[4].

Related Entities

Andrey Zvyagintsev film Philip Glass Russia

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [9] ↑ . FilmAffinity. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  18. [22] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] ↑ . bbc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . IMDb. wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . nmhh.hu. nmhh.hu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . journal.the2school.com. journal.the2school.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  49. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . europeanfilmacademy.org. Retrieved . europeanfilmacademy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [53] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [54] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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