All day long the TV shows an ice-hole. Ice-holes are the theme of the day, a winter tradition that unites believers and sportsmen, stars and walruses, the president and the unemployed. In the centre of the news reports are the topics of Baptism, fishing and the criminal chronicle. The president and a pike, the artist and the crit- ics, the oligarch and the law enforcement team – they all meet at an ice- hole in search of solutions for their problems. The jobless Muscovite, with bad habits, dives down an ice-hole for a wife, just like Sadko. The fairy- tale plots intertwine with documentary context, and it is no longer clear where reality ends. Remember Nietzsche: if you long gaze into the abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.
Cast
Mikhail Efremov
disgraced oligarch
Vasily Mikhailov
Unknown
Andrey Rodionov
freelance drinker
Dmitriy Brusnikin
the president
Denis Yasik
Oleg Romanov
Oleg Kamenshchikov
Unknown
Alexandr Userdin
Unknown
Valentin Samokhin
Unknown
Mikhail Plutakhin
Unknown
Kseniya Orlova
Anna Kitina
Olga Vorobyova
Unknown
Mikhail Fishman
announcer
Andrey Silvestrov
the Sea King
Anna Kotova
Marina
Alexey Yudnikov
Unknown
Konstantin Kozhevnikov
Unknown
Dmitriy Urosov
Unknown
Anastasia Kalashnikova
Unknown
Evgeny Kutyanin
Unknown
Sergey Karaban
Unknown
Anastasiya Velikorodnaya
Unknown
Alexey Martynov
Unknown
Crew
Andrey Silvestrov
Director, Producer
Andrey Rodionov
Screenplay
Ekaterina Troepolskaya
Screenplay
Vladimir Usoltsev
Director of Photography
Andrey Kostyanov
Director of Photography
Lyusya Artemyeva
Executive Producer
Natalya Berseneva
Executive Producer
Alexandr Starikov
Producer
Vadim Bogdanov
Producer
Tikhon Pendurin
Producer
Andrey Guryanov
Original Music Composer
Iraida Yusupova
Original Music Composer