Minotaur

Minotaur (Russian: Минотавр) is a 2026 political thriller drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, co-written with Simon Liashenko and based on the 1969 French film The Unfaithful Wife by Claude Chabrol. In the backdrop of the Russo-Ukrainian war, broken business executive Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov) discovers his wife Galina (Iris Lebedeva) has been unfaithful. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on 19 May, where it won the Grand Prix and Cannes Soundtrack Award. It received widespread critical acclaim, with special praise for its direction, screenplay and acting. It will be theatrically released in France by Les Films du Losange on 14 October.