Grigory Perel
This short film tells a love story in a provincial city. The film is full of humor, wonder and national color.
In contemporary Russia there exists a hidden world - a world of magic and enchantment. Magicians have to hide from the nonmag society surrounding them, a society they are disdainful of, some even hostile towards. The Master of the Guard of the Supreme Council of Magic and Enchantment, Bakhrushin, loses his magic abilities and must not only avoid revealing this, but also prevent the war brewing between the magicians and the nonmagi.
In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to Ganin's, who, he discovers, is Mary's husband, temporarily separated from her by the Revolution but expecting her imminent arrival from Russia.
The mad day of the successful citizen — the electrician Vasily Ivanovich began with visit of the Commission on check of the complaint to the waste proceeding from the furnace. According to the findings of the Commission had to change the photo on the documents to a more similar one. And to invite lady in theater, had to turn off there light.
