Mafia: The Game of Survival

Mafia: The Game of Survival (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.

Plot
Moscow, 2072. The game-show 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 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.

Box office
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.

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