Synopsis
Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2023) is available to watch online on iFILM — a Russian-French period thriller by directors Natalia Merkulova and Alexei Chupov, starring Yura Borisov. Leningrad, 1938: the purge machinery has turned on its own operators.
Captain Fyodor Volkonogov served the security organs without asking questions. Then his name appeared on the list and he ran before they arrived. That night a ghost shows up — a colleague shot the previous day — with a warning: hell is already prepared for him, unless he repents and one of his victims' relatives agrees to forgive him. He sets out across a city full of people he helped destroy. Timofey Tribuntsev, Nikita Kukushkin, and Alexander Yatsenko appear as he works through the list.
Merkulova and Chupov make the Stalinist terror function like an absurdist quest — whether a broken man can even recognise repentance in himself. The film screened in the international programme at the Toronto International Film Festival. Stream Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2023) online on iFILM.
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