Genre: Drama
Duration: 115mins
Director: Valery Todorovsky
Cast: Leonid Yarmolnik, Elena Yakovleva, Daniil Spivakovsky, Sergey Garmash

Awards

• Grand Prix for Best Film (XV Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr)

Yulik is a Moscow scientist whose peaceful family life is shattered when he receives a letter from Pavel, an ex-soldier claiming to be his illegitimate son. Pavel has been both mentally and physically changed by war and when he arrives in Moscow for an operation he goes to his father’s house. When Yulik and his family finally take Pavel into their lives, his presence begins to change them all dramatically; Pavel at times looks and acts like the “monster” of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and when his scientist father finally exiles his “creation” there are devastating consequences for them all. “I wanted to not only make the audience think that all of us can face a situation like the one in the film, but that we can break the indifference.” – Todorovsky.

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