Kola lives with a young wife and teenage son Lila Roma in a small town by the sea in northern Russia. It has an old wooden house, situated on the bay, which he inherited from his father. Vadim Szelewiat town mayor, whose office is hanging on the wall portrait of Vladimir Putin, won a court case with wheels and is going to throw him out of the house. For help arrives Dimitri - a lawyer friend from Moscow who knows how to save a fortune Koli. The battle for the survival of the corrupt power structure, which becomes more and more aggressive.

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The situation becomes complicated when the lawyer turns out to be a lover Lili. The brutal clique-town forces him to leave, and the family Koli is alone with the absolute, devouring everything Leviathan, which turns out to be contemporary Russia.
Leviathan is the fourth, as the best and most daring feature film by Andrei Zvyagintsev career, known in Poland from the movies "Elena", "Back", "Exile". It is a contemporary film drama with elements of black comedy. This interesting example of metaphorical satire of contemporary Russia, full of deep irony is a contemporary version of the Book of Job, awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. The award for Best Screenplay. The film uses beautiful music of Philip Glass' opera "Akhenaten", which perfectly captures the atmosphere of the film.

Selected awards and honors:
2014 - Award for Best Screenplay in Cannes Film Festival
2014 - T-Mobile New Horizons
2014 - Film and Art Festival Two Shores
Category: Feature Film Series