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Elena
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1136
- IMDb #1613
- Rotten Tomatoes #1284
- Metacritic #548
- Letterboxd #1258
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #545
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2357
- Metacritic Critics #307
- Metacritic Audience #1626
- Kinopoisk #1898
- AlloCiné #2226
- Trakt #1959
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94. Critics average 90, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Elena is a former nurse from a modest background who is now married to a wealthy, older man, Vladimir. Their comfortable life in Moscow is divided by class; Vladimir is cold toward Elena's underachieving son from her first marriage. When Vladimir has a heart attack, he decides to leave his fortune to his estranged daughter, cutting out Elena and her son. Fearing for her son's future, Elena is driven to make a desperate decision that will secure his inheritance, testing the limits of her morality and maternal instinct.
Details
- Director
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Writers
- Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin
- Studio
- AR Films, Palace Films
- Released
- 6 June 2011
- Country
- Russia
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Box office
- $228.2K
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 24th European Film Awards 2011 | Best Actress | Nadezhda Markina | Nominee |
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