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Leviathan

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12/10/2014

BBC Four - Leviathan

A family is forced to fight a corrupt mayor who told them their house will be demolished.

Award-winning Russian drama. In a small coastal town, a family is forced to fight a corrupt mayor who told them their house will be demolished.

Nikolay, a hot-headed car mechanic, lives with his second wife Lilya and his son Roma in his self-built home in a small seaside northern town. With the help of his old friend Dmitriy, now a Moscow lawyer, he is appealing the result of a court case brought by the corrupt mayor to seize his home and land. With his opponent not playing by the rules, Nikolay finds himself in a David and Goliath battle of biblical proportions.

In Russian with English subtitles.

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