
The setting is Kiev in 1918, a time of revolution, turmoil and civil war. The Germans have occupied the city, Petlyura`s Socialists are camped outside awaiting their moment, while the Bolsheviks watch, contemplating...
A famous Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary of a dead man. But the experiment goes disastrously wrong and the...
When Maxudov`s novel fails, he attempt suicide. When that fails, he dramatizes his novel. To Maxudov`s surprise - and to the resentment of literary Moscow - the play is accepted by the legendary "Independent Theatre"...
