She's a journalist with one assignment: interview the father she never met. What could go wrong?
“The Interview” tells the story of Sonya, who grew up with her mum. Sonya enrols in the faculty of journalism in Moscow. Once she decides to meet her father, whom never saw, and take an interview with him under the guise of a journalist so she would get answers to the questions that have long troubled her
Acting
Serebryakov's weathered stillness against young desperate probing.
Direction
Sosnin traps two strangers in intimacy with surgical precision.
Writing
Seventeen minutes that recontextualize every word spoken.
Director
Ivan Sosnin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sosnin belongs to a wave of Russian short filmmakers exploring post-Soviet fractured families through genre frameworks.
Serebryakov was already established as Russia's premier 'wounded patriarch' actor before his international breakout in 'Leviathan' (2014).
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