An executioner has 24 hours to atone for his sins in Captain Volkonogov Escaped, an inventive and disturbing Venice Film Festival competition entry from Russian writer-directors Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov.
This married couple finished their screenplay in lockdown, and the result is both nightmarish and dreamlike. Set in 1938, it presents a stylized version of St Petersburg that feels more like a movie dystopia than a historical drama.
But the events it draws from are terrifyingly real. Volkonogov (Yuri Borisov) is a faithful USSR enforcer who goes on the run, fearing for his life, after his colleagues are questioned by their superiors.
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