4 (2006)

Synopsis: Three strangers meet in a late night Moscow bar and spin incredible stories about themselves- all of which turn out to be lies. Marina, a prostitute, claims to be an advertising executive. Volodya,... Three strangers meet in a late night Moscow bar and spin incredible stories about themselves- all of which turn out to be lies. Marina, a prostitute, claims to be an advertising executive. Volodya, a piano tuner, talks about his work on a top secret Russian project in cloning or doubling. Oleg, a meat wholesaler, brags about his close ties to top Kremlin leaders. After this talk fest, the three depart and go their separate ways. Marina goes home and finds out her sister has died. She decides to go the village where her sister lived and attend her funeral. The village is inhabited by old crones who earn a livelihood by making dolls out of bread they chew. The crones also consume vast amounts of moonshine and behave rather badly. Volodya goes to a disco, wanders the streets of Moscow and gets picked up by the police as a crime suspect. He finds himself in prison, then forcibly conscripted and sent off to fight in an unspecified war. Oleg visits his father, with whom he has a strange relationship. Oleg leads the bachelor’s life and is a member of the new Russian middle class. He makes deals selling meat from a subterranean freezer facility. He is also perplexed about the prevalence of a new breed of round piglets. The characters wander in a landscape that is desolate and scarred by heavy industry. Wild dogs roam everywhere,while the number 4 appears in many guises throughout the film and links the often disparate events. [More]

Starring: Marina Vovchenko, Irina Vovchenko, Svetlana Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov

Starring: Marina Vovchenko, Irina Vovchenko, Svetlana Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Yuri Laguta, Konstantin Murzenko

Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky

Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky
Studio: Leisure Time

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