An angelic-looking but selfish and ruthless young man wanders from crime to crime without the slightest remorse. In the Russian film "Satan," the devil is a delicately handsome young man whose murderous opportunism is too easy to understand. While the film registers shock at its protagonist's absolute amorality, it also presents him as part of a bitterly divided and pessimistic culture. The world of "Satan" is one in which nothing really works, and therefore anything goes.
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Cast
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Sergey Kupriyanov
Vitaliy
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Svetlana Bragarnik
Alyona Pavlovna
Known for
Invasion
The Student
Veniamin Malochevskiy
Andrey Korshunov
No other roles listed
Armenak Nazikyan
Ruben
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The Year of the Dog
Oriental Novel
Mikhail Starodubov
Genrikh
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Three Seconds
The Three
Maria Averbach
Vera
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Valentina Kasyanova
Groom's friend
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Attackers: The Last Flight
Stationery Rat
Nikolay Solodilov
Also in
The Fall of the Empire
Prishvin's Paper Eyes
Andrey Smirnov
Neighbor
Also in
The Castle
Emergency Incident of a District Scale
Anatoliy Aristov
Vitaliy's grandfather
Known for
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Anna Sagalovich
Natasha
No other roles listed
Vladislav Fedchenko
Taras Ivanovich
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Viktor Aristov Director · Yuri Vorontsov Cinematographer Irina Vigdorchik Editor
First release February 14, 1991 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Lenfilm
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Original title
Сатана
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Germany · February 14, 1991
Premiere
Russia · June 17, 1991
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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