Playing the Victim is much more than just modern remake of Hamlet turning Shakespearean classic drama into a black comedy. Young man Valya (Hamlet} works playing victims in reconstructions of crimes on murder sites. These reconstructions are in themselves absurdist comedies of highest order. One night Russian Hamlet Valya sees his father's ghost, or probably it was just a dream, who shares with Valya his suspicions that he was poisoned by his brother. After this all the hell breaks loose: one day reconstructing murder in Japanese restaurant, where a murderer had shot his school friend for telling some innocent joke, chief detective gives a great harangue that nation should play a good football then there will be an order in the country and there will be no crime. Valya returns home and at the family feast poisons his uncle, mother and his future bride Olya (this movie Ophelia) with sushi garnished with poisonous fish ordered in Japanese restaurant. And movie ends in reconstruction of Valya's crime by the other victim imitators.
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