4 (film)

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4 (Chetyre) (Russian: Четыре)
Directed by	Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Produced by	Yelena Yatsura
Written by	Vladimir Sorokin
Starring	Marina Vovchenko Svetlana Vovchenko Sergei Shnurov Yuri Laguta
Cinematography	Sandor Berkesi Aleksandr Ilkhovsky Alisher Khamidkhodjaev
Editing by	Igor Malakhov
Release date(s)	August 2005
Running time	128 mins
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
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4 (Chetyre) (Russian: 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.

[edit] 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.