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Minotaur

2026 · 135 min

A slow, suffocating descent into moral collapse, where quiet domestic scenes and bureaucratic pressure build to a devastating, inevitable violence.

Tagline
Morality is a maze.
Overview
When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife's affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • betrayal
  • corruption
  • guilt
  • morality
  • isolation
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism9
Romance2
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity8
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, crime, thriller
Directed by
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Written by
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko
Starring
Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova, Juris Žagars, Anatoliy Belyy, Vladimir Friedman, Anastasia Mischenko, Yurii Zavalnyuk
Music
Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Cinematography
Mikhail Krichman
Runtime
135 min
Country
France, Latvia, United States of America, Switzerland, Germany
Languages
Russian, English

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