The Petrovs in and Around the Flu

Audio book for the premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov’s film.

Read by Semen Sierzyn.

The Petrovs are the most ordinary family. He is an auto mechanic, she is a librarian, they have a son—but they don’t live together. Nothing special, it would seem. But everyday reality explodes the moment the family catches the flu, and life turns into a total whirlwind of madness, fantasy, and surrealism.

“Petrovs in the Flu” is a fusion of genres, a combination of the incompatible, an absolutely new cinematic language. A unique film about the past and the present, nostalgia that accurately shows the full multidimensionality of the Russian soul.

“Petrovs in the Flu” was part of the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Director: Kirill Serebrennikov. Cast: Semen Sierzyn, Chulpan Khamatova, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Ivan Dorn, Yulia Peresild, Yura Borisov, Aleksandr Ilyin, Timofey Tribuntsev, Varvara Shmykova.