Leviathan Today I have watched Leviathan, a 2014 Russian drama film, that has won the Golden Globe for best foreign-language film and is Russia’s Oscar submission. The film was set on a peninsula by the Barents Sea (the North of Russia). It is the story of a man who struggles against a corrupt mayor who wants his piece of land. This is a really very hard movie, the story is very sad. But the author nothing exaggerate. The situation is typical. Life is shown as it really is - across-drinking, corruption, the power of force and priests that protect the powerful.