Basada en el popular cuento satírico de Nikolái Gógol, ha sido nominada a los Premios del Cine Europeo y Gran Premio del Jurado en el prestigioso Festival de Annecy. Una joya de la animación surrealista que apela al collage de estilos, técnicas, formatos, líneas temporales y géneros para hacer un homenaje a la vanguardia artística rusa y su posterior caída ante el régimen artístico de Stalin. Un goce para todos los sentidos.
Un burócrata del estado se despierta un día sin su nariz. Más tarde descubre que esta ha desarrollado vida propia y lo ha superado en estatus social al alcanzar el rango de consejero del estado.
A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in his homeland, Soviet Georgia, Niko decides to move to France, only to find that he has merely traded one type of interference for another.
When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the privileges of power. As he gradually becomes acquainted with milieus which he d either forgotten or never known and a host of sometimes eccentric, often remarkable everyday people, Vincent really begins to start living again.
To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A friend's letter brings the sad news that his fiancée has already married someone else and in desperation he quits his job and flies back to Moscow. There all his vast efforts to win her back seem in vain...
A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man.
