Mysticism

The ordinary night in Moscow. Four people are sitting in the bar, the barmen and three occasional visitors. It is easy to start talking; as usual everyone likes to speak about himself. But the truth is often not that sort of thing, the one would easily share with the stranger.

“You are likely to be the musician, aren`t You?” Marina asks. “Oh no, I`m the chemist, the geneticist,” musician says.

And then he tells about his business trip to the village of clones. It appears, that it is better to clone in fours, that`s why in the village there are four identical blacks, four identical young girls, etc.

Later on they parted and the life took its normal course. But the film creators decided to draw our attention to the trivial parts of life: the usual sounds (the sound of street sprinkler, the door squeaks); the usual moribund village inhabited by the old women only; the usual clubhouse, where everyone looks like each other; the usual quadruplets, whose sister had died; the usual round piglets…

Trailer:

Directed by:

Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Filmocom/ Hubert Bals Foundation, Russia, Netherlands, 2004

Feature:

Drama, Mysticism

Duration:

185 min.