The Convoy (Конвой)
People - dead. Country - zone. City - zero.
Overview
Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.
Key Crew
Director: Aleksei Mizgiryov
Screenplay: Aleksei Mizgiryov
Producer: Pavel Lungin, Evgeniy Panfilov, Pavel Popov, Andrey Rydanov
Director of Photography: Jānis Eglītis
