Soyuzkinoservis

The film tells the story of the difficult fate of the Jewish people in modern history, analyzing events from the point of view of the greatest Jewish writer of the 19th century, Sholem Aleichem.

The film is about a Turkmen who defends his homeland from invasion. He is captured, tortured, and brainwashed into serving his homeland's conquerors. He is so completely turned that he kills his mother when she attempts to rescue him from captivity.

A witty, despairing French-Russian-Italian-Swiss art movie set in 16th-century Georgia, Stalinist Georgia, contemporary Georgia, and contemporary Paris, featuring the same set of actors in all four settings.