The Flood (2022 film)

The Flood (Наводнение) is a 2022 Russian drama film directed by Ivan Tverdovskiy. It is based on the 1929 short story by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Plot
Swimming coach Sophia and her husband Trofim take in their niece, who is an orphan. Anya, a talented young athlete, became withdrawn after the loss of her parents and stopped talking. This becomes a significant problem for the girl, she has problems communicating with peers, some of whom openly bully her. Meeting a young man named Dima from a team of guys allows Anya to feel needed by someone and become a true friend. At the same time, Sophia's relationship with Trofim is subjected to the most serious tests.

Cast

 * Anna Slyu as Sophia
 * Sofya Shidlovskaya as Anya
 * Maxim Shchyogolev as Trofim
 * Vlad Prokhorov as Dima
 * Ekaterina Steblina as Irina
 * Natalya Pavlenkova as Lyudmila
 * Vladimir Maisinger as Stepan
 * Marina Kleshcheva as Svetlana
 * Stasya Venkova as Christina
 * Ugne Zavistauskaite as Sveta Mikhailova

Critical response
The Flood received generally positive reviews from professional film critics.

Film.ru author Maxim Ershov rated the film 6 points. In his opinion, this is “a hopeless and shocking drama about a series of tragedies in one family”. Anton Fomochkin, in his review for Seans, noted: “Microcosm of “The Flood” is a damp closet, the darkness of which was sharply disturbed by the cold beam of a flashlight. Something is running and fidgeting in the light. Only the cold body of the weakest remains motionless  the one who cannot survive this closet night”. Vasily Koretsky (Kommersant) summarizes: “The main thing in Tverdovsky’s interpretation of Zamyatin’s text is the radical destruction of all “feelings” as an apology for violence”.

At the same time, critic of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta publication Dmitry Sosnovsky considered Tverdovskiy's film an “impenetrable piece of dirt”, filmed “with the intent to cause maximum discomfort to the viewer not only moral, but also physical”.