Karen ShakhnazarovCast
Leonid Filatov Oleg Basilashvili Vladimir Menshov Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Evgeniy Evstigneev Aleksey Zharkov
Credits
Written by: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
Plot
A Moscow engineer arrives in a provincial town for a business trip and finds a surreal world of strange events and ghosts, in a Kafkaesque, comic fantasy.
Sinekatalog’s take
A surreal and funny Kafkaesque comedy.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (3,150 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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