Mafia: The Game of Survival
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| Directed by | Sarik Andreasyan |
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| Cinematography | Anton Zenkovich |
| Edited by | Georgiy Isaakyan |
| Music by | Roman Vishnevsky Alim Zairov |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | $12–15 million[2][3] |
| Box office | US$7.4 million[4] |
Mafia: The Game of Survival (Russian: Мафия: Игра на выживание, romanized: Mafiya: Igra na vyzhivanie) is a 2016 Russian science fiction action film directed by Sarik Andreasyan and written by Andrei Gavrilov.[3] It was inspired by a popular party game, Mafia. The movie was released in Russia on January 1, 2016.
Plot
[edit]Moscow, 2072. The game-show Mafia became the most popular television show in the world. Eleven people gather at the table to find out — who are innocent civilians and who is ruthless Mafia. The world is going to see a cocktail of emotions and feelings: fear, lie, pain, pride, passion, love and death. The winner will receive a huge cash prize, and the loser will die.
Cast
[edit]- Viktor Verzhbitsky as Supreme Organizer game
- Veniamin Smekhov as Luka Sergeyevich
- Yuri Chursin as Konstantin
- Vyacheslav Razbegaev as Vladimir
- Andrey Chadov as Ilya
- Vadim Tsallati as Kirill
- Violetta Getmanskaya as Katerina
- Natalia Rudova as Mariya
- Eugene Koryakovsky as Pyotr
- Alexey Grishin as Krivoy
- Artyom Suchkov as Ivan
- Karen Badalov as Psychologist
- Vsevolod Kuznetsov as Lead Voice
- Alexander Gagarinov as Kirill's friend
Release
[edit]The film was released in Russia on January 1, 2016. It was released in China on October 14, 2016.[5]
Reception
[edit]Box office
[edit]The film grossed US$4.2 million in Russia and the CIS and US$3.1 million in China,[4] to worldwide total of 7,4 million, against an approximately $12 to $15 million budget. It is considered a box office bomb.
Critical reception
[edit]Reception of Mafia: The Game of Survival in Russian media was negative.[6][7] It was largely ignored by mainstream critics, because Enjoy Movies did not screen the movie for press. According to the Russian review aggregator Kritikanstvo, only 8 reviews were published, and most of them were strongly negative, including reviews from KG-Portal,[8] 25 Kadr[9] and Kinokadr.[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Мафия: Игра на выживание". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved December 27, 2018.
- ^ "Мафия: Игра на выживание". Mail Kino (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ a b Kozlov, Vladimir (16 December 2015). "Russian Sci-Fi Film From 'American Heist' Director Sells Internationally". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- ^ a b "Mafia: Survival Game". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- ^ "暗杀游戏（2016）". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved October 3, 2016.
- ^ "Рецензии на фильм Мафия: Игра на выживание / Mafia (2015), отзывы". Kritikanstvo.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ "Мафия: Игра на выживание — отзывы о фильме". Megacritic.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ Kuzmin, Yevgeny (11 January 2016). "Рецензия на фильм "Мафия. Игра на выживание" / Mafia". KG-Portal.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ Marin, Vasily (6 January 2016). "Мафия: Игра на выживание, 2015". 25-k.com (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ Berlinsky, Gosha (2 January 2016). "Мафия: Игра на выживание: Сарик-пересмешник". Kinokadr.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.