3 Yura Borisov's Movies You Have to Watch After Anora
Some of the actor’s previous works are just a gem for entangled drama lovers.
Sean Baker’s Anora came as a true once-in-a-lifetime moment for Russian actors Mark Eydelshteyn and Yura Borisov, and their careers are now heading towards new heights.
Following the movie’s triumph at the Cannes Film Festival and box office success, the former has now secured himself a leading role in last year’s hit show Mr. & Mrs. Smith while the latter keeps garnering more prestigious awards nominations.
Though Borisov is now getting way more attention than probably the film itself, many viewers felt like they needed more of the actor’s presence on the screen. Well, we have 3 movies with Yura Borisov that came out before Anora and are a must-watch.
The Silver Skates (2020)
It’s a pretty rare occasion to see Borisov playing a bad guy, but things are like this in Michael Lockshin’s new year-ish epic drama The Silver Skates.
Set in wintery Saint Petersburg sometime around 1900, the movie follows 18-year-old Matvey who, being a stranded, yet high-skilled ice-skating courier, opts for joining a pickpocketing Ice Gang led by Yura Borisov’s Alexey.
The movie was a massive hit in Russia and eventually made it to Netflix becoming the first Russian film in the Netflix Originals category.
Compartment No. 6 (2021)
A Russian-Finnish drama, Compartment No. 6 stars Yura Borisov as a pretty much typical tough Russian man Lyokha whose paths cross with Finnish student Laura, portrayed by Seidi Haarla, when they both take the same compartment on a train from Moscow to Murmansk.
Lyokha and Laura have nothing in common, which shows in the first part of the movie filled with petty fights and overall tension, but things change once they have no other choice but to get to know each other better during a very long train ride.
Petrov’s Flu (2021)
Based on Alexey Salnikov's novel, Kirill Serebrennikov’s movie is set in post-Soviet Russia and follows an auto mechanic, whose family is brought down by a weird type of flu right before New Year’s celebrations.
Not much time passes before the characters start experiencing hallucinations that will make them question the fading line between reality and fiction. Yura Borisov is also involved in all the mess happening in there in a double role of the main character’s childhood friend Sasha and also Ded Moroz aka Russian Santa Claus.