| Mafia: The Game of Survival | |
| Director: | Sarik Andreasyan |
| Music: | Roman Vishnevsky Alim Zairov |
| Cinematography: | Anton Zenkovich |
| Editing: | Georgiy Isaakyan |
| Runtime: | 91 minutes |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
| Budget: | $12–15 million[1] [2] |
| Gross: | [3] |
Mafia: The Game of Survival (Russian: Мафия: Игра на выживание|Mafiya: Igra na vyzhivanie) is a 2016 Russian science fiction action film directed by Sarik Andreasyan and written by Andrei Gavrilov.[2] It was inspired by a popular party game, Mafia. The movie was released in Russia on January 1, 2016.
Moscow, 2072. The game-show Mafia became the most popular television show in the world. Eleven people gather at the table to find out — who are innocent civilians and who is ruthless Mafia. The world is going to see a cocktail of emotions and feelings: fear, lie, pain, pride, passion, love and death. The winner will receive a huge cash prize, and the loser will die.
The film was released in Russia on January 1, 2016. It was released in China on October 14, 2016.[4]
The film grossed in Russia and the CIS and in China,[3] to worldwide total of 7,4 million, against an approximately $12 to $15 million budget. It is considered a box office bomb.
Reception of Mafia: The Game of Survival in Russian media was negative.[5] [6] It was largely ignored by mainstream critics, because Enjoy Movies did not screen the movie for press. According to the Russian review aggregator Kritikanstvo, only 8 reviews were published, and most of them were strongly negative, including reviews from KG-Portal,[7] 25 Kadr[8] and Kinokadr.[9]