Moscow's elite party themselves to death while the city watches.
Modern Russian take on Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" focuses on a few days from one popular Moscow journalist's life and the essential attributes of his life: Sex, betrayal, love, friendship, murders, etc.
Acting
Khabenskiy's hollow charisma as a man famous for nothing.
Cinematography
Neon-drenched Moscow nights that swallow souls whole.
Director
Filipp Yankovsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released when Russia's new wealthy class was fetishizing itself onscreen; arguably the most honest document of that era's spiritual bankruptcy.
Filipp Yankovsky is acting royalty—his father Oleg was Soviet cinema's biggest star, making this a cynical inheritance.
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