Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Kapitan Volkonogov Bezhal

Courtesy of the Venice Film Festival.

VERDICT: In a vividly dystopic 1938 Leningrad under Stalin’s Great Purge, a young NKVD torturer tries to save his soul, in co-directors Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov’s high-energy parable.

Deborah Young

September 8th, 2021

Russian directing team Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov make films (Intimate Parts; The Man Who
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