CANNES, France, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev elaborated his latest movie Leviathan, which was presented on Friday as the last movie in Completion at the Cannes Film Festival 2014.
The story is about a man, Kolia Adam Lallana England Jersey , living with his family in a remote town of in the north of Russia, his quiet and peaceful life is confronted to a greedy and corrupt city mayor who wants to buy his land to develop a project.
When Kolia refuses to sell the land, a "war" with the major will show how effective the power of the local administrator can be, a young motivated lawyer will try to stop him by risking his own life.
Zvyagintsev elaborating his movie in an interview with Xinhua on Friday, said "I accidentally heard about a story that happened in 2004 in Colorado (the United States) England World Cup Jerseys , the story of Marvin John Heemeyer; he was a victim of the 'system' like the protagonist of my movie but he acted in a very radical way."
"This man was fighting to keep his land and at some moment he decided to take a bulldozer, he covered it and made it bullet proof. He went to the city, while police was shooting at him, and demolished several official buildings," he continued.
The director said "it was the story of someone who was in despair and no one was listening him or taking into account his situation."
He explained that he wanted originally make the movie in the United States England Soccer Jerseys , but then he thought it was better to adapt it to Russia.
The movie was turned in a northern mountainous island in Russia on the Barents Sea, he said, he wanted to show how small the man is versus nature in this small totally abandoned town facing the sea.
Talking about the shooting, he said, "Once we confirmed the shooting place and everything was built at a certain point we talked to a local guy who mentioned that just 5 km from this place you could see a real whales Wayne Rooney World Cup Jersey , so I said this is a sign this is the right place."
In the movie, drinking is put into evidence with even a comic effect. Commenting on that the movie, the director said "There was no comic effect intended, what I shot it' s true and serious; in Russia we have a drinking game that it's done to show how strong and man you are."
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