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  Directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Russia 2004 / Avant-garde / Experimental / Surrealist Film / 126 min / Color / Dolby 2.0 / 1.85:1 Widescreen Anamorphic / PAL /  In Russian with Optional English Subtitles

Marina Vovchenko, Irina Vovchenko, Svetlana Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Konstantin Murzenko, Sergei Shnurov, Mariia Vovchenko, Anatoli Adoskin, Yuri Laguta, Andrei Kudriashov, Alexei Khvostenko, Shavkat Abdusalamov

The lies shared by three Russian strangers take on a life of their own in director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's dreamlike journey into the strange heart of modern-day Russia. After entering a local watering hole and relaying a series of elaborate but entirely fabricated tales, a prostitute posing as an advertising executive, a piano tuner claiming to be a genetic engineer, and a butcher posing as a Kremlin insider all go their separate ways. In the hours following their strange conversation, all three will experience a surreal and richly symbolic voyage into a land where the specter of even the most elaborate of lies can somehow fade into reality for one tantalizing instant.