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Directed by | Sarik Andreasyan |
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Music by | Roman Vishnevsky Alim Zairov |
Cinematography | Anton Zenkovich |
Edited by | Georgiy Isaakyan |
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91 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Budget | $12-15 million |
Box office | US$7.4 million |
Mafia: The game of Survival (Russian: Мафия: Игра на выживание) is a 2016 Russian science fiction action film directed by Sarik Andreasyan and written by Andrei Gavrilov. It was inspired by a popular party game Mafia. The movie was released in Russia on January 1, 2016.
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.
The film was released in Russia on January 1, 2016. It was released in China on October 14, 2016.
The film grossed US$4.2 million in Russia and the CIS and US$3.1 million in China, to worldwide total of 7,4 million, against an approximately $12 to $15 million budget. It is considered a box office bomb.
Reception of Mafia: The Game of Survival in Russian media was negative. It was largely ignored by mainstream criticians, 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, 25 kadr and Kinokadr.