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The Hustler

Name: The Hustler
Director: Fedor Kravchuk, Nikita Kravchuk
Released: 2026
Duration: 96 min

Representation Score

0.1/10

Minimal

2026

Director

Fedor Kravchuk, Nikita Kravchuk

Runtime

96 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

The film is a male-centric crime drama set in 1996 Moscow. Its world is built around male ambition, financial fraud, and prison survival, leaving little room for diverse perspectives. Women appear only as emotional anchors, stripped of agency or narrative power. The cast is ethnically homogeneous, reflecting a narrow slice of Russian society. While the story critiques systemic corruption and values family, it reinforces traditional gender roles and excludes LGBTQ+, disabled, and racial minority voices entirely.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Hustler have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

No LGBTQ+ characters or same-sex relationships appear. The narrative centers on a heterosexual marriage and male friendships within a prison setting.

How does The Hustler portray gender?

Minimal

Women are sidelined; the wife functions only as a family anchor. All plot drivers and power figures are men, from bankers to prison inmates.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Hustler?

Minimal

The cast and setting are entirely Russian. No characters of color appear in leading or background roles within this Moscow-based story.

How does The Hustler represent religion and culture?

Minimal

The film critiques the corruption of the 1996 Russian elite while treating the nuclear family as a positive moral anchor. Wealth is shown as corrupting, but traditional family bonds are preserved.

Does The Hustler include disability representation?

Minimal

No characters with physical or mental disabilities are depicted. The narrative focuses on psychological survival without including disability representation.

Present on Screen

Critiques the corrupting influence of unchecked wealth and political power.
Frames the nuclear family as a moral anchor worth protecting.

Limited or Absent

Women lack narrative power and appear only in supportive roles.
The cast lacks racial and ethnic diversity.
No LGBTQ+ or disability representation is included.

Official Synopsis

Two up-and-coming friends, seeing themselves as the future elite of the new world, oligarchs, they sign up for a major deal, but it turns out that they have been drawn into a massive embezzlement scheme involving billions from the treasury. After his arrest, Andrei ends up in an overcrowded communal cell, a purgatory where he must transform himself into a different person in order to survive and return back to the real world, to his family.

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