While digging one of the many tunnels for the Moscow metro, Soviet workers unearth ruins of a dungeon. The site is closed, the metro tunnel is diverted, and amidst the bustle no one notices the tunnel workers’ foreman pocketing a little ‘souvenir’ – a book-sized frame made of precious metals featuring an inscription in an unknown language. Decades later, the foreman’s grandson Ilya, who works as a courier, discovers the ancient relic in a pile of old junk. Oblivious to the true value of the family heirloom, he soon learns about it from a mysterious stranger. The relic is the key to the secret location of the priceless ancient library that belonged to Ivan the Terrible. What Ilya doesn’t know is that the search for the lost library has been going on for centuries, and now very powerful people are after him. Ilya and the mysterious stranger decide to try their luck in finding the library.
old man from the tire serivce
모스크바 변두리에서 현금을 운송하며 살아가는 빅터와 파블릭은 삭막한 일상을 보낸다. 단지 더 많은 돈을 벌기를 원할 뿐 이들의 삶에 다른 희망은 찾기 어렵다. 그러던 어느날 빅터와 파블릭은 마을 주민을 대상으로 한 시 창작 수업에 등록하는 한편 현금 강탈을 계획한다. 건조하고 잔인한 폭력 묘사와 일상의 감상적 순간이 묘한 조화를 만드는 작품.
