4 (2005 film)

Infobox Film
name = 4 (Chetyre) ( _ru. Четыре)


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director = Ilya Khrzhanovsky
producer = Yelena Yatsura
writer = Vladimir Sorokin
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starring = Marina Vovchenko
Svetlana Vovchenko
Sergei Shnurov
Yuri Laguta
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cinematography = Sandor Berkesi
Aleksandr Ilkhovsky
Alisher Khamidkhodjaev
editing = Igor Malakhov
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released = August 2005
runtime = 125 mins
country = flagicon|Russia Russia
language = Russian
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imdb_id = 0445161

"4 (Chetyre)" ( _ru. Четыре) is a 2005 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 summary

Oleg (a meat merchant), Marina (a prostitute), and "simply Volodia" (a piano tuner) 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 "simply Volodia"—played by Sergei Shnurov, 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 Volodia's, begin to dominate their everyday lives.

=Cast=

Yuri Laguta-Oleg

Konstantin Murzenko-Marat

Sergei Shnurov-Volodya

Marina Vovchenko-Marina

External links

*imdb title|0445161|title=4
* [http://russart.com/?movietrailer&mid=724 Movie Trailer] and [http://russart.com/?moviepictures&mid=724 Screenshots]