Nessa mistura de animação e ópera, acompanhamos o século 20 na Rússia e o reinado de terror de Josef Stalin por meio de fragmentos inspirados no clássico O Nariz, escrito por Nikolai Gógol em 1836. Com trilha da obra homônima da década de 1920 do compositor Dmitri Shostakovitch, a narrativa combina cenários históricos, biografias de importantes personagens da época e obras-primas de artistas, compositores e escritores russos de vanguarda que viveram durante esse período de totalitarismo.
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Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, Kama Ginkas’ astounding reimagining highlights and builds off of the Chekhovian tension between the beauty of life and the tragedy of how it is lived. The story tells the the tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As he and Tanya develop a relationship and eventually marry, a black monk of legend begins appearing to Kovrin in visions. Though these hallucinations at first imbue the young man with joy and energy, they eventually lead to his ruin.
