Petrov's Flu (Russian: Петровы в гриппе, romanized: Petrovy v grippe) is a 2021 drama film written and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov based on Alexey Salnikov's novel The Petrovs In and Around the Flu (Petrovy v grippe i vokrug nego).
[1] It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Vulcan Award for cinematography.
Additional credited roles were played by Husky, Timofey Tribuntsev and Marina Kleshchyova.
According to Serebrennikov, "Dorn was a "wonderful dramatic artist" with "an interest in the paradoxical, energy, control of his tools, an ability to exactly recreate the image he wanted to impress on his audience, and a very deliberate approach to art.
The website's critical consensus states, "A gritty Russian satire with a big, beating heart, Petrov's Flu is highly contagious".