4Russia
2004, 126min.
 Script: Vladimir Sorokin, Dir: Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Dir. of Phot: Alisher Khamidkhodzaev, Aleksandr Ilkhovsky, Sandor Berkesi, Prod. Design.: Shavkat Abdusalamov, Edit: Igor Malakhov, Sound: Kirill Vasilenko, Prod.: Yelena Yatsura.
Cast: Maria Vovchenko, Irina Vovchenko, Svetlana Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Yuri Laguta, Konstantin Murzenko, Alexey Khvostenko.
The film is composed of episodes of life in Moscow and in other parts of the country. Because of their absurdity, these episodes are as much realistic as they are unimaginable. Three characters happen to meet in an anonymous bar. We learn from their conversations the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But are they both telling the truth? It's only later on, when the three separate, that more hints about these strangers are revealed. The film plays with subjects such as social and political changes in Russia, its countryside and its present-day citizens surviving all in their own way.
Awards
Tiger Award, Rotterdam IFF, 2005. | Khrzhanovsky, Ilya Ilya Khrzhanovsky (born 1975, Moscow)
He spent a year at the Bonn Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in film directing at the famous Russian film school, VGIK, in 1998. Since then, he has directed theater productions and made a short film with Artem Mikhalkov. 4 is his first feature film.
Filmography
A Stop (1998, short, Co-dir.)
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