Jack Inanna
Pravda

From the author of the famously politically incorrect television series on contemporary Islam “My Dad the Āyatollāh,” Jack Inanna, comes the film Pravda, releasing on January 28. It is set in Russia, in Moscow, and focuses on a family of Russian underdogs and their second-hand lives. Pyotr Verkhovensky is the grandfather, a former officer of the Red Army, incontinent and suffering from senile dementia, nostalgic for communism. Nikolai is the father, a former military man like his father-in-law, who tried to get rich in various ways in the nineties but always failed; he is an alcoholic and a chronic fatalist. Nastasya is the mother, a former Russian literature professor who lost her job in the nineties and has been in depression ever since, spending all day watching Turkish soap operas. Ivan is the eldest son, a soldier, brash, always in a good mood, and a staunch admirer of Putin. Sofya is the daughter, a shop assistant by day and an escort by night, cynical and superficial. And finally, Alyosha is the youngest son, a punk musician and drug addict, the series’ narrator. If your favorite films are Star Wars, or something similar, forget about it, don’t watch it, it’s not for you. For everyone else, or almost everyone, don’t miss it! You won’t regret it.