4 (2004 film)
| 4 | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Ilya Khrzhanovsky |
| Produced by | Yelena Yatsura |
| Written by | Vladimir Sorokin |
| Starring |
Marina Vovchenko Sergey Shnurov Yuri Laguta |
| Cinematography |
Shandor Berkeshi Alexandre Ilkhovski Alisher Khamidkhodjaev |
| Edited by | Igor Malakhov |
| Distributed by |
Filmocom Hubert Bals Fund |
Release date |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
4 is a 2004 Russian drama film directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky after a screenplay by Vladimir Sorokin. Originally it was conceived as a short film, but turned into a full-length film after four years of work.
Plot
Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner "simply Volodya" drop into an all-night bar in Moscow, where they are served by a narcoleptic bartender (three plus one is four) while each regales the others with made-up biographies. Oleg claims to work in President Putin's administration, supplying him with bottled water and his wife with liquor; Marina passes herself off as a marketing executive; and Volodya, the infamous lead singer of the rock group Leningrad, as a geneticist who clones twins (two times two makes four, again) in a laboratory that has been engaged in these experiments since the days of Stalin. After they separate, these fantasy realities, especially Volodya's, begin to dominate their everyday lives.
Cast
- Marina Vovchenko as Marina
- Sergey Shnurov as Volodya
- Yuri Laguta as Oleg
- Konstantin Murzenko as Marat
- Alexei Khvostenko as a Man with No Age
- Anatoly Adoskin as Oleg's Father
- Leonid Fyodorov as Sergey
- Andrey Kudryashov as a Bartender
- Shavkat Abdusalamov as a Meat-Processing Plant Manager
- Natalya Tetenova as Sveta
- Irina Vovchenko as Sonya
- Svetlana Vovchenko as Vera
Reception
- Zolnikov, Leonid (2006-10-24). "4 / Четыре (2005)" (in Russian). CULT Cinema. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
Awards
The film won the VPRO Tiger Award (shared with Daniele Gaglianone's Changing Destiny and Mercedes Álvarez's The Sky Turns) at the 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam.[1]
References
- ↑ "Awards 2005". International Film Festival Rotterdam. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
External links
- 4 on IMDb
- 4 at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
- Julia Vassilieva ROUGE review