Oleg Yagodin

A stark experiment by director A. Fedorchenko and a new form of cinema, which takes the spectator into the recollections of the protagonist, along corridors of memory and through key events of Russian history from the Silver Age to WWII.

Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a bottle with apple cider: winged service dogs and heart-shaped potatoes, dead Semashko, the People’s Commissar for Health, and cheerful angels, love for the Tsar and love for the young secretary Annushka, executions and pregnancies – everything is interlaced and inseparable!

After the sudden death of his father, Yegor returns to the village, intending to quickly sell the inherited land with a herd of cows, pay off his father's debts and take his younger brother to the city. Local businessman Gleb has the documents for the deal ready. But the brother is categorically against and, under cover of night, leads the herd in an unknown direction. The more Yegor immerses himself in what is happening, the more transparent the true motives of Gleb become, who will stop at nothing for the sake of money. The only thing that he did not take into account in his calculations was the mystical forces guarding the local lands.