The screenplay is an adaptation of Chekhov’s mysterious paradoxical and disturbing story, which can be in all justice called the most pessimistic and also the most life-asserting work of the author. The story is based on a real life incident and centers around the head doctor of an asylum who winds up as the asylum patient. Lonely, estranged, reflecting doctor Andrei Ragin is one of the focal characters in the work of Chekhov and the entire world literature of the 20th century. Preserving the story-line the authors deliberately move the scene into the present. Shooting of the film was done in a real asylum.

– Award for Best Actor (Vladimir Ilyin) – Moscow IFF, 2009.

Cast: Vladimir Ilyin, Alexei Vertkov, Alexander Pankratov-Chiorny, Evgeny Stychkin, Victor Soloviov, Alexei Zarkov, Albina Evtushevskaya, Anna Siniakina

Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, with participation Alexander Gornovsky

Script: Alexander Borodiansky, Karen Shakhnazarov

Producer: Karen Shakhnazarov

Movie in Russian.

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Distributor: Alexander Studio Group

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