CANNES, France (AP) — Amid unrest in eastern Ukraine and a return to Cold War-like politics, a powerful satire that depicts local corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia has stormed the Cannes Film Festival.

Andrei Zviaguintsev’s “Leviathan” premiered Friday in Cannes after earning some of the best reviews of the festival for its tale of a Job-like family man stripped of his seaside home by the crooked mayor of a small North Russia town. He’s offered less than a fifth of its value, harassed by local authorities and given mere lip service by the courts. In the mayor’s office, a portrait of Putin looms overhead.