Confession Gets One Night in Cinemas and Streams the Same Day
A drama about a Soviet-era interrogation will play in cinemas for one night only, and it reaches streaming the same day. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Confession gets a one-night theatrical release on November 11, the same day it becomes available on The Daily Wire's streaming service.
The film is directed by Václav Marhoul, and Ben Shapiro wrote the screenplay. It runs 2 hours 12 minutes, or 132 minutes. The story is set in Stalin-era Russia and centres on the interrogation of a prisoner.
Rob Lowe plays Alexei, a former literature professor. In 1938 he is arrested in Moscow and taken to Lubyanka Prison, charged as a counterrevolutionary, meaning someone accused of working against the Soviet state. James Franco plays Vladimir, Alexei's former prize student, who becomes the man questioning him.
Brad Dourif plays Father Mikulski, a dissident Eastern Orthodox priest who published an anti-Soviet pamphlet. The wider cast includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Nick Nolte, Richard Brake, Emile Hirsch and Dean Norris.
The Hollywood Reporter, a trade paper that covers the film business, published its review of the film on November 10.
The release plan is the part that changes the calendar. Films usually spend weeks in cinemas before they reach home viewing, a gap known as the theatrical window. Here that gap is a single night. Cinema audiences get one evening on the big screen, and the film is available at home from the same day.
