In the Siberian village of Shushenskoye, not a modern thinker, rocker, poet, rebel lives in internal emigration. The students simply call him "Teacher", his wife calls him Volodenka, someone Trotsky shouts at him in the heat of the moment: "You're a fucking psycho! You damn fool!" The further into the winter forest — the more firewood: dreams come true, reality finally gives way to fantasy. As a result of the quail hunt, the victims alternatively turn out to be either Stalin, Clara Zetkin, or Trotsky. However, Trotsky in any case was the least lucky of all…
Reviews
Very well executed
Best movie of this year hands down!
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.