Malmkrog


Malmkrog is a 2020 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Cristi Puiu.
Set in turn-of-the-20th-century Transylvania, at the snowy hillside manor of a blithe aristocrat named Nikolai, the film follows for nearly the entirety of its 200 minutes a series of winding conversations between a group of bourgeois elite—among them a Russian general's wife, a devout young Christian girl, a Franco-Russian nobleman, and a middle-aged woman whose pessimistic worldview seems to embody the essence of Solovyov (philosopher)|Solovyov]'s book.
The conversations always return to a central topic: whether one should adopt a non-violent approach to the organisation of society, or approach the duty of fighting war in a fervently committed, Christian spirit.
It was shown in the Encounters section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, where it also won the Best Director Award.

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