Elena

Elena(2011) directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev will be screened on April 26 at the Russian Center auditorium, No10, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7 at 6 pm.

The film depicts the social and cultural distance between the inhabitants of an exclusive apartment in downtown Moscow and a crumbling Khrushchevka in Moscow's industrial suburb.

Elena is a woman with a proletarian background who connects these disparate worlds. She met Vladimir, an elderly business tycoon, in a hospital when she was his nurse.

Their alliance has been described by a critic as "a morganatic marriage nearly a century after the October Revolution."

Elena's son from a previous marriage is poor and wants money from Vladimir to have one of his sons enrolled in a university, keeping him out of the compulsory military service.

After Vladimir makes it clear that he is not going to subsidise Elena's relatives, she decides to poison him in order to inherit his fortune.

Vladimir plans to leave the apartment to his only daughter from an earlier marriage.

For further details please contact the Cultural Officer on 0112 685440 / 0112 685429. Limited number of seats available.