VZYATKA
THE BRIBE
A citizen bribes an official to shelve a previous case of bribery. But a control team against corruption appears in the office just after the money has been hands over. Both sides are convicted when the alleged decoy then tries to escape an old punishment by making an offer of money. On the way to an agreement between the "decoy", the official and the control team, an absurd competition breaks out to come up with the most inexpensive offer in order to sweep the incident under the carpet. By exaggerating the cliché of Russian corruption, Alexey Kharitonov succeeds in creating an amusing comedy in which none of the participants keeps a clean slate. ST
Mov | Farbe / Colour
Alexey Kharitonov
Eugeny Kozlov
Vyacheslav Agarkov
Alexandra Nikiforova
5'Nizza
Sergey Burunov, Mikhail Trukhin, Nikolay Kovbas, Sergey Annenkov, Alexandr Revenko
Svobodnoe Kino
Life is Short
Kirill Alekhin
Krupskoy 8-2-38
123022 Moscow
Russia
+7 926 23 35 091
alekhin.k@gmail.com
www.lifeisshort.ru
Alexey Kharitonov - born in 1991 in Moscow, Russia. He studied at the Moscow film school " Svobodnoe Kino". THE BRIBE is his debut film, for which he has won a special film critic’s guild award at this year’s Kinotavr film festival.
