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The film, which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, is an entry for the 2027 Oscar for best international film. Zvyagintsev left Russia in 2021 and has not returned. In August, Russia designated him a \"foreign agent.\""},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The narrative of \"Minotaur\" centres on Gleb, the owner of a logistics company. He faces pressure from the local mayor to identify 14 employees for military service. Unwilling to send his current workers to the front, Gleb recruits new drivers with promises of high salaries, only to dispatch them to the war."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Zvyagintsev stated that as a director who speaks only Russian and was born in Russia, he could not avoid addressing the war, which he described as the most important event of recent years. The film, produced in France, is in Russian but is unlikely to be officially released in Russia due to its subject matter. Zvyagintsev commented that propaganda is a crude instrument, while art deals with subtleties and works over the long term."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The film was originally conceived as a remake of Claude Chabrol's \"La Femme Infidele.\" However, the project transformed when Russia's invasion of Ukraine occurred. The setting shifted from suburban Paris to a bleak Russian town, and the domestic tensions of the original story were recontextualised against the backdrop of war."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on film's release date"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Star Kuala Lumpur reported that \"Minotaur\" opens in French cinemas on October 14. 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