Moscou, 1953. As purgas antissemitas estão em curso e Stalin está no seu leito de morte. Quando o cirurgião militar General Yuri Glinsky tenta escapar, é raptado, levado para as profundezas do inferno e colocado no centro do enigma.

Liberally adapted from Joseph Brodsky’s “In a Room and a Half,” this slippery and surreal, paranoid, and poetic postwar satire by Aleksei German (Hard to Be a God) is truly one of a kind. Both a mesmerizing feat of filmmaking and an inventive portrait of Stalin’s Russia.