Directed by:
Aleksey GermanCast:
Yuri Tsurilo, Нина Русланова, Mikhail Dementev, Aleksandr Bashirov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Natalya Lvova, Aleksandr Lykov, Anna Ovsyannikova (more)VOD (1)
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Named after the apocryphal exclamation of Soviet security chief Lavrentiy Beria as he rushed to Stalin's deathbed, this blackly funny, deliriously immersive satire distils the anticipation and anxiety in the Moscow air, as the Soviet despot lay dying. Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin s hands. A military surgeon, General Yuri Georgievich Klensky (Yuri Tsurilo), finds himself a target of the "Doctors' Plot": the anti-Semitic conspiracy accusing Jewish doctors in Moscow of planning to assassinate the Soviet elite. Pursued, abused, and marked for the gulags, Yuri is chased and dragged through a Stalinist Soviet nightmare. His desperate, jolting journey encapsulates the madness of the era. (Arrow Films)
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