Russia's Oscar-tipped "Leviathan" got a belated release at home on Thursday, showing on hundreds of screens in a censored version following harsh criticism from officials and Orthodox clerics. Andrei Zvyagintsev's bleak social drama, widely predicted to win best foreign-language film at this month's Oscars, is getting a major cinema release on 650 screens across Russia, several months after it came out in the West. The film was set for November release in Russia but delayed due to a new law banning swearing in cinemas that forced changes to its expletive-littered dialogue. In Russia, the movie, which is banned for anyone under 18, is being shown with all the swear words cut from the soundtrack without beeps, the characters silently mouthing them.
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