Mafia: The Game of Survival

Mafia: The Game of Survival is a 2016 Russian science fiction action film directed by Sarik Andreasyan and written by Andrei Gavrilov. It was inspired by a popular party game, Mafia. The movie was released in Russia on January 1, 2016.

Plot

Moscow, 2072. The game-show Mafia became the most popular television show in the world. Eleven people gather at the table to find out — who are innocent civilians and who is ruthless Mafia. The world is going to see a cocktail of emotions and feelings: fear, lie, pain, pride, passion, love and death. The winner will receive a huge cash prize, and the loser will die.

Cast

Viktor Verzhbitsky as Supreme Organizer game
Veniamin Smekhov as Luka Sergeyevich
Yuri Chursin as Konstantin
Vyacheslav Razbegaev as Vladimir
Andrey Chadov as Ilya
as Kirill
Violetta Getmanskaya as Katerina
as Mariya
Eugene Koryakovsky as Pyotr
Alexey Grishin as Krivoy
Artyom Suchkov as Ivan
as Psychologist
Vsevolod Kuznetsov as Lead Voice
Alexander Gagarinov as Kirill's friend

Release

The film was released in Russia on January 1, 2016. It was released in China on October 14, 2016.

Reception

Box office

The film grossed in Russia and the CIS and in China, to worldwide total of 7,4 million, against an approximately $12 to $15 million budget. It is considered a box office bomb.

Critical reception

Reception of Mafia: The Game of Survival in Russian media was negative. It was largely ignored by mainstream critics, because Enjoy Movies did not screen the movie for press. According to the Russian review aggregator Kritikanstvo, only 8 reviews were published, and most of them were strongly negative, including reviews from KG-Portal, 25 Kadr and Kinokadr.