Your soup is possessed and your ancestors are armed. Bon appétit.
When Masha attempts to follow her Russian grandmother’s Borscht recipe, her ancestors hailing from all corners of Eastern Europe, materialize from the pot to claim the soup as their own. An argument over the most ethnically authentic recipe soon turns to bloody, all-out war.
Direction
Evdokimenko's 13-minute tonal whiplash mastery
Practical Effects
Glorious practical gore meets soup-stained period costumes
Acting
Šerbedžija weaponizing his entire filmography
Director
Vika Evdokimenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rade Šerbedžija (Oleksandr) is Croatian but built his career playing every Balkan and Eastern European stereotype—this film weaponizes that typecasting.
The borscht wars are real: UNESCO recognized Ukrainian borscht as intangible heritage in 2022, sparking actual diplomatic tension with Russia. Evdokimenko turned geopolitics into kitchen carnage.
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