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''Leviathan'' ((ロシア語:Левиафан), ''Leviafan'') is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, co-written by Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, and starring Aleksei Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, and Vladimir Vdovichenkov. According to Zvyagintsev, the story of Marvin Heemeyer in the United States inspired him and it was adapted into a Russian setting,〔(«Если больше нет юродивых, кто скажет о беззаконии и лжи?» ), Kommersant.ru, 14 May 2014〕 but critics compare the story to the more similar biblical story of Naboth's Vineyard, where a King vies for his subjects' land and is motivated by his Queen to obtain it in a sly manner. The character development of the protagonist parallels another biblical figure, Job.〔(Leviathan review – a compellingly told, stunningly shot drama )〕 The producer Alexander Rodnyansky has said: "It deals with some of the most important social issues of contemporary Russia while never becoming an artist's sermon or a public statement; it is a story of love and tragedy experienced by ordinary people". Critics noted the film as being formidable,〔(Cannes 2014 review: Leviathan - a new Russian masterpiece )〕〔(Film Review: ‘Leviathan’ )〕 dealing with quirks of fate, power and money.〔 The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2014 Official Selection )〕 Zvyagintsev and Negin won the award for Best Screenplay.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Awards 2014 : Competition )〕 The film was adjudged as the best film of the year at the 2014 London Film Festival and the 45th International Film Festival of India. It won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards.〔(72ND ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE® AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED ). dickclark.com. Retrieved 11 December 2014.〕 It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ==Plot summary== Set in fictional town of Pribrezhny (shot in the coastal town of Teriberka, Murmansk Oblast), Russia, the plot follows the tragic series of events that affect Kolya (Aleksei Serebryakov), a hotheaded car mechanic, his second wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) and his teenage son, Roma (Sergey Pokhodyaev). The town's crooked Mayor Vadim (Roman Madyanov) has undertaken a legal plot to expropriate the land on which Kolya's house is built. The mayor's plan is supposedly to build a telecoms mast on Kolya's property, offering a grossly undervalued sum for compensation, although Kolya believes that his real plan is to build a villa for himself. Kolya's old friend Dima (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), a successful and sharp lawyer from Moscow, attempts to fight the expropriation. During the course of the trial, Kolya is arrested for shouting at corrupt police officers in a police station. When the trial rules in favor of the mayor, Dima manages to get him to step back by threatening him with compromising documents, as well as securing Kolya's release. However during Kolya's absence, Lilya engages in an extramarital affair with Dima. During an outing with Kolya's friend Ivan Stepanovic (Sergei Bachursky), Roma witnesses Lilya and Dima having sex and Kolya finds out about the affair, assaulting the couple. Meanwhile, Mayor Vadim visits his friend, a local Orthodox Church bishop, for spiritual comfort, who tells him that all power comes from God and encourages him to solve his problems forcefully. Subsequently, Vadim and his thugs abduct Dima and carry out a mock execution, and urge him to return to Moscow. Afterwards Vadim continues his drive at expropriating Kolya's house. Lilya returns home to Kolya, but she is depressed by the public revelation of her affair. While the family is packing to move out, Kolya corners Lilya in the basement and rapes her. Roma witnesses the event and flees the house, collapsing in tears by a whale skeleton on the shore. He returns home late at night, and explicitly blames Lilya for everything that is going wrong in their lives. That night, Lilya is unable to sleep and leaves the house in the early morning. The next morning she does not turn up at work and her phone is switched off. Her body is discovered a few days later. A mournful Kolya revs up his drinking habits even more and encounters a priest. He asks him why God is doing this to him. The Orthodox priest, who is a pious man, quotes the book of Job, and counsels Kolya that, when Job accepted his fate, he was rewarded with a long and happy life. The next day, Kolya is arrested. The police claim to have evidence that Kolya raped and murdered Lilya. Pieces of evidence against him include his own friends' testimonies about threats he made when he discovered Lilya's affair. Kolya is convicted of murder and sentenced to fifteen years in a maximum-security prison. With no family left, Roma is taken in by Kolya's former friends. In the end, Kolya's house is torn down and Mayor Vadim's project is revealed: a lavish Orthodox Church for his friend the bishop. The film concludes with a sermon by the bishop, with the mayor in attendance. The bishop extols the virtues of God's truth versus the world's truth, which is ever-changing, and that good intentions do not excuse evil acts. He urges the congregation not to act with force or cunning, but to put their trust in Christ. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leviathan (2014 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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