Khroustaliov, My Car!A film of stunning visual beauty and invention that constantly surprises and delights, Khroustaliov, My Car! first screened at the Festival in 1998.
Set in Moscow during the 1950s, it tells the story of Yuri Glinsky, a womanizing Red Army General, whose life is turned upside down when he is swept up in Stalin's infamous "Doctors' Plot" to purge the medical profession of its Jewish elements.
Dragged into this phoney conspiracy by a KGB double agent, Glinsky flees in order to evade arrest, only to be captured and summoned back to Moscow by the head of the secret service.
Director Alexeï Guerman plunges the viewer into the madhouse of Stalin's Russia, then flashes forward ten years, where we find the Glinsky on a train crossing Russia, having fled Moscow and his family for good.
20th anniversary retrospective.
