3 Yura Borisov’s films you must see after Anora

Sean Baker’s Anora came as a true once-in-a-lifetime moment for Russian actors Mark Eydelshteyn and Yura Borisov, and their careers are now on the way to new heights.

After the film’s triumph at the Cannes Film Festival and box office success, the former has now secured a leading role in last year’s hit show Mr. & Mrs. Smith, while the latter continues to garner several prestigious nominations.

Although Borisov is now getting much more attention than probably the film itself, many viewers felt they needed more of the actor’s screen presence. Well, we have 3 movies with Yura Borisov that came out before Anora and are a must-watch.

The Silver Skates (2020)

It’s a pretty rare occasion to see Borisov play a bad guy, but that’s how things are in Michael Lockshin’s new year epic drama The Silver Skates.

Set in wintry Saint Petersburg sometime around 1900, the film follows 18-year-old Matvey, who, as a stranded yet highly trained ice-skating courier, chooses to join a gang of pickpockets led by Yura Borisov’s Alexey.

The film was a huge hit in Russia and eventually made it to Netflix, becoming the first Russian film in the Netflix Originals category.

Room No. 6 (2021)

A Russian-Finnish drama, compartment no. 6 stars Yura Borisov as a fairly typical gruff Russian man Lyokha, whose paths cross with Finnish student Laura, portrayed by Seidi Haarla, when they both take the same compartment on a train from Moscow to Murmansk.

Lyokha and Laura have nothing in common, which is evident in the first part of the film filled with small fights and overall tension, but things change when they have no choice but to get to know each other better during a very long train ride.

Petrov’s Flu (2021)

Based on Alexey Salnikov’s novel, Kirill Serebrennikov’s film is set in post-Soviet Russia and follows an auto mechanic whose family is struck down by a strange type of flu just before New Year’s celebrations.

Before long, the characters begin to experience hallucinations that will make them question the fading line between reality and fiction. Yura Borisov is also involved in all the mess that happens in there in a dual role of the protagonist’s childhood friend Sasha and also Ded Moroz aka Russian Santa Claus.