President Film

A story about a friendship between eighty years old sculptor and a way younger theater director.

The thirties, the heyday of Soviet film production. The story of the famed couple's glory — a filmmaker and actress, behind the external well-being of which were hidden strange contradictory relationships and a sense of fear that they carried through their whole lives. The prologue to this story is the 85th anniversary of Lidiya Polyakova, the formerly brightest star in Soviet cinema, who played the main role in all the films of her own husband, director Konstantin Dalmatov. Now in the courtyard there are other times, Dalmatov’s movies are called ideological agitation, and the director himself and his wife are hiding from the world in the country, trying not to let anyone in.

The main character of the film, Mikhail Perov, is a professional diver. In his past, he failed to become a businessman, and in the present, he has large debts because he is a gambler. One day, he receives a strange telegram asking him to come and help his old friend, Garik Sedykh. Without hesitation, Perov sets off on a journey. His younger brother, Alexander, accompanies him. Upon arriving in a small coastal town, Mikhail learns that his friend has been murdered. Before his death, Garik, who worked as a bodyguard for the thief-in-law Pereverzev, hid a case with the thief's cash in a complex underwater labyrinth. He encrypted the coordinates of the location with a code known only to Mikhail. Now, the main character must find the case and save his own life and that of his brother.