Prix spécial et prix de la Critique internationale (FIPRESCI) au festival de Karlovy-Vary, 1998
Prix Nika du meilleur scénario, 1999
Plot synopsis
Lyrical, dramatic fantasy. Parable.
Some ëNew Russiansí perishing in yet another fight and a
leading, popular DJ of nighttime radio; an old Uzbek
explaining to his grandson where Chingis Khan is buried, and
a successful killer; the fine countess Olshanskaya and the
mysterious monk Taisius; a foreign diplomat and Alexander
Pushkin meeting a beautiful Kalmyk girl on the road to
Arzrum... Everyone has his own short story in this poetic
journey through time and space. The fragmentary nature of
the narrative is just as ordinary as the fragmented nature of
life itself, which cinema once again has tried impudently to
capture.
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