Kirill serebrennikov co writes and directs this russian drama the film follows troubled teenager veniamin yuzhin pyotr skvortsov as his devout christian faith begins to cause problems in his high school it begins when he convinces his conservative principal that creationism should be included in the schools biology lessons to the chagrin of his own atheist teacher elena krasnova viktoriya isakova his loud and profuse espousal of his beliefs causes more issues with staff and his fellow p