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. |