THE FACTORY

By Yury BYKOV

BAC FILMS - as DISTR FRANCE

Drama - Completed 2018

A daring, suspense-filled, fiercely realistic thriller from talented director Yury Bykov highlights the web of complicity, power and corruption in contemporary Russia.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2018
Contemporary World Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • RUSSIA
    • Languages
    • RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 109 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yury BYKOV
    • Writer(s)
    • Yury BYKOV
    • Synopsis
    • When local oligarch Kalugine announces the bankruptcy of his factory, a group of workers who haven't been paid for months kidnaps him for ransom, locking him up in the factory. Kalugine’s private bodyguards - and the police SWAT team - arrive at once. The angry workers are trapped. How will they survive the night of confrontation with men who will kill without hesitation to protect Kalugine and his crimes?

      In THE FACTORY, a daring, suspense-filled, fiercely realistic thriller, talented director Yury Bykov highlights the web of complicity, power and corruption in contemporary Russia.