Mafia: The Game of Survival

Mafia: The Game of Survival (Russian: Мафия: Игра на выживание, romanized: Mafiya: Igra na vyzhivanie) is a 2016 Russian science fiction action film directed by Sarik Andreasyan and written by Andrei Gavrilov.[3] It was inspired by a popular party game, Mafia. The movie was released in Russia on January 1, 2016.

Mafia: The Game of Survival
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySarik Andreasyan
Produced by
  • Sarik Andreasyan
  • Ghevond Andreasyan
  • Vladimir Polyakov
  • Max Oleynikov
  • Nikita Argunov
Written by
  • Andrei Gavrilov
Starring
Music byRoman Vishnevsky
Alim Zairov
CinematographyAnton Zenkovich
Edited byGeorgiy Isaakyan
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Karoprokat
Release date
  • January 1, 2016 (2016-01-01)[1]
Running time
91 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget$12–15 million[2][3]
Box officeUS$7.4 million[4]

Plot

Moscow, 2072. The card game Mafia became the most popular television show in the world. Eleven people gather at the table to find out — who are innocent civilians and who is ruthless Mafia. The world is going to see a cocktail of emotions and feelings: fear, lie, pain, pride, passion, love and death. The winner will receive a huge cash prize, and the loser will just die.

Cast
  • Viktor Verzhbitsky as Supreme Organizer game
  • Veniamin Smekhov as Luka Sergeyevich
  • Yuri Chursin as Konstantin
  • Vyacheslav Razbegaev as Vladimir
  • Andrey Chadov as Ilya
  • Vadim Tsallati as Kirill
  • Violetta Getmanskaya as Katerina
  • Natalia Rudova as Mariya
  • Eugene Koryakovsky as Pyotr
  • Alexey Grishin as Krivoy
  • Artyom Suchkov as Ivan
  • Karen Badalov as Psychologist
  • Vsevolod Kuznetsov as Lead Voice
  • Alexander Gagarinov as Kirill's friend

Release

The film was released in Russia on January 1, 2016. It was released in China on October 14, 2016.[5]

Reception

Box office

The film grossed US$4.2 million in Russia and the CIS and US$3.1 million in China,[4] to worldwide total of 7,4 million, against an approximately $12 to $15 million budget. It is considered a box office bomb.

Critical reception

Reception of Mafia: The Game of Survival in Russian media was negative.[6][7] It was largely ignored by mainstream critics, because Enjoy Movies did not screen the movie for press. According to review aggregator Kritikanstvo.ru, only 8 reviews were published, and most of them were strongly negative, including reviews from KG-Portal,[8] 25 Kadr[9] and Kinokadr.[10]

gollark: We have word2vec and stuff.
gollark: I see.
gollark: Notably, English words do not actually mean the same thing as the roots might imply, in cases where there even are obvious ones.
gollark: Just because your language theoretically has words composed of subwords doesn't mean you can ignore the various problems I mentioned (except possibly the grammar one). And "convert the words to semantic expressions" hides a lot of the complexity this would involve.
gollark: I'm pretty sure I've seen diagrams of pronounceable things of some kind, but they're more complex than just permutations of "high tone, low tone" and do not conveniently map to concepts.

See also

References
  1. "Мафия: Игра на выживание". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved December 27, 2018.
  2. "Мафия: Игра на выживание". Mail Kino (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  3. Kozlov, Vladimir (16 December 2015). "Russian Sci-Fi Film From 'American Heist' Director Sells Internationally". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  4. "Mafia: Survival Game". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  5. "暗杀游戏（2016）". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  6. "Рецензии на фильм Мафия: Игра на выживание / Mafia (2015), отзывы". Kritikanstvo.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  7. "Мафия: Игра на выживание — отзывы о фильме". Megacritic.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  8. Kuzmin, Yevgeny (11 January 2016). "Рецензия на фильм «Мафия. Игра на выживание» / Mafia". KG-Portal.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  9. Marin, Vasily (6 January 2016). "Мафия: Игра на выживание, 2015". 25-k.com (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  10. Berlinsky, Gosha (2 January 2016). "Мафия: Игра на выживание: Сарик-пересмешник". Kinokadr.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 December 2018.
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