The Duelist

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The Duelist

R

2016

1h 49m

History

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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In 19th-century Saint Petersburg, a retired officer returns from exile and takes up arms as a duelist's representative for hire.

Godfrey Cheshire

RogerEbert.com

12/02/2016

3/4

A welcome indication of the current Russian cinema's commercial ambitions and potential.

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

12/01/2016

The clichéd story line pursues turgidity with a relentless determination.

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

12/01/2016

Dazzles and provokes as it makes little real sense beyond the confines of its hermetic milieu.

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Tomas Trussow

Film Inquiry

03/01/2019

I didn't care much for its grandiose self-seriousness and the dour focus on masculine honor above all else.

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Brogan Morris

We Got This Covered

12/03/2016

4/10

Gorgeously empty, The Duelist is more interesting as a reflection of the Russian sociopolitical climate today than it is as an actual goddamn movie.

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Jeffrey Edalatpour

SF Weekly

12/01/2016

Writer-director Mizgirev has a sharpshooter's cold pair of eyes. His lens adds an antiseptic quality to the many deaths... It's Fyodorov's performance that communicates the emotional burden of killing.

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02/27/2018

Malgré quelque bonnes idées et le fait que The Duelist est un autre exemple du nouveau savoir-faire russe en matière de cinéma, le film tend à perdre en efficacité surtout vers la fin du récit. On pourras par contre tout de même apprécier l'esthétique du film.

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11/24/2017

I watched it- it's all dressed up with no place to go. Beautifully mounted but the acting is so stilted you could put wheels under the cast and wheel it anywhere. Vlad, Yuri, and Pyotr stand out but are lost in the endless of rain deluge that pervades the entire picture.

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11/18/2017

Much much better than the critics rated it. Great movie!

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11/02/2017

I really liked this movie. A dark history of revenge with dark characters in a dark environment, a dark adventure set in a time when Russian aristocracy was already rotten inside. The thing I enjoyed the most is that it is a very different adventure to the "good guys" vs "bad guys" so loved by Hollywood. In this sense, this is quite literally a movie on the conflict between a murderer and a very bad man.

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01/04/2017

This movie in good style. That's all.

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12/07/2016

Terrible dialogs and nasty people . The surroundings are kinda ok but it is definitely not enough.

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Pyotr Fyodorov

Yakovlev

Vladimir Mashkov

Graf Beklemishev

Yuliya Khlynina

Marfa Tuchkova

Yuri Kolokolnikov

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Synopsis

In 19th-century Saint Petersburg, a retired officer returns from exile and takes up arms as a duelist's representative for hire.

Director: Aleksey Mizgirev
Producer: Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergei Melkumov
Screenwriter: Aleksey Mizgirev
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Fetisoff Illusion Europe, Non-Stop Productions
Rating: R (Some Sexuality/Nudity|Strong Violence)
Genre: History, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Russian
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 2, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 18, 2017
Runtime: 1h 49m