Film programme at the Caligari FilmBühne
as part of the 2018 International May Festival

Der die Zeichen liest

The Student
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Original language: Russian
R 2016
118 Min.


A wicked satire filled with pitch-black humour: Benjamin is a student at an enlightened state school. But when he converts to Christianity, he uses the Bible as a seemingly endless resource of aggression. While his classmates get more and more involved in a row over liberal instruction, Benjamin embarks on a course of rebellion, a missionary crusader who knows how to use one of the other pasage from the Bible against homosexuality, dicorved women and evolutionary theory.

Cast

With Petr Skvortsov, Victoria Isakova, Svetlana Bragarnik, Julia Aug