The western revenge tale “The Salvation” starring Mads Mikkelsen, opens March 20 at UNL’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. The Russian drama “Leviathan” continues for a second week. Both films are rated R and play through March 26.
In “The Salvation,” Mikkelsen unleashes a maelstrom of Wild West bloodshed in a white-knuckle tale of revenge. When he lays waste to the scoundrels who killed his wife and son, a Danish ex-soldier (Mikkelsen) incurs the wrath of a sadistic gang leader hell-bent on hunting him down.
“Leviathan” is the newest drama from Andrey Zvyagintsev, acclaimed director of “The Return”
Kolya (AlexeÏ Serebriakov) lives in a small fishing town near the Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto repair shop that stands next to the house where he lives with his young wife, Lilya (Elena Liadova), and his son, Roma (SergueÏ Pokhodaev). The town’s corrupt mayor, Vadim Shelevyat (Roman Madianov), is determined to take away Kolya’s business, house and land.
Through the film, Kolya fights as hard as he can to keep from losing everything he owns, including the beauty that has surrounded him from the day he was born.
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