Section: Youth Film U18 Competition

Vyyti Iz Gruppy

Leave The Group

Mariya Tumova
Russia, 2021, 100 Min

A gripping action thriller, drawing on Russian hip-hop culture and the country's graffiti street art scene, about a teenager going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence. In search of his place in the world Gosha joins a social network to whose members he is required to prove that he's something special. Then, however, he is given the task of carrying out a real murder.

A search for meaning full of verve. Driven by Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov and Nietzsche's concept of the Superhuman, Gosha ends up in a social media group that recruits children to a mysterious brotherhood and uses violent attacks as a means of cleaning the streets of unworthy people. Gosha is driven by a desire to murder his own father, a violent alcoholic. When tasked with committing real murder however, he doesn't have the heart and is expelled from the group. Soon thereafter, his best friend falls from the roof of a house. A cycle of guilt and atonement begins: in a series of raucous action sequences set to a vibrant soundtrack Gosha himself becomes an activist against the group, in the process uncovering a gigantic conspiracy that soon threatens his own life. In high spirits bordering on the carefree Mariya Tumova stages a collision of hip ghetto aesthetics and fat beats with a sensitive youngster and the big questions in life.

Mariya Tumova -

We use cookies on our website. Some of them are essential for the operation of the site, while others help us to improve this site and the user experience (tracking cookies). You can decide for yourself whether you want to allow cookies or not. Please note that if you reject them, you may not be able to use all the functionalities of the site.