This is a portrait film of Boris Mirkin, one of the pioneers of Soviet programming. In the film, Mirkin does not talk so much about artificial intelligence as about the fur hat he bought in London, the collection of horse figurines or his children scattered in different countries. In fact, it is not really a cheerful story because it is the portrait of a whole generation of Soviet scientists. He started working in cybernetics in a country where they wanted to use artificial intelligence to study the daily behavior of villagers. He left because his family feared pogroms against the Jews. He made a career in the West. He came back because in Russia, people think in Russian.....
