Character Relationship Map: 4

Characters

• Oleg (played by Yuri Laguta) — protagonist

  Oleg is a meat merchant who enters an all-night Moscow bar with Marina and Volodya. He invents a biography claiming that he works in President Putin's administration, supplying bottled water to him an...

• Volodya (played by Sergey Shnurov) — supporting

  Volodya is the infamous lead singer of the rock group Leningrad, although he presents himself in the bar as a geneticist. He claims to clone twins in a laboratory conducting experiments since Stalin's...

• Marina (played by Marina Vovchenko) — supporting

  Marina is a prostitute who joins Oleg and Volodya in an all-night Moscow bar. During their exchange of invented biographies, she claims to be a marketing executive rather than revealing her real occup...

• Oleg's father (played by Anatoli Adoskin) — supporting
• bartender (played by Andrei Kudriashov) — supporting

  The bartender works the all-night Moscow bar where Oleg, Marina, and Volodya meet. Described as narcoleptic, he serves the three visitors while they exchange increasingly elaborate invented biographie...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Oleg's father → Oleg (father)

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Volodya → bartender (Social Customer-Server) — Volodya interacts with the bartender as a customer.

  Volodya drops into the all-night bar and is served by the narcoleptic bartender.

• Marina → bartender (Social Customer-Server) — The bartender serves Marina as one of the bar's three visitors.

  Marina enters the all-night bar with Oleg and Volodya, where the bartender serves them.

• Oleg → bartender (Social Customer-Server) — The bartender serves Oleg during the overnight bar encounter.

  Oleg enters the all-night bar and is served by the narcoleptic bartender.

• Marina → Volodya (Social Bar Companion) — They are temporary companions within the bar's storytelling encounter.

  Marina and Volodya meet in the same all-night bar and listen to each other's invented biographies.

• Oleg → Volodya (Social Bar Companion) — Their relationship is defined by their shared overnight meeting.

  Oleg and Volodya are among the three people who meet in the all-night bar and tell stories about themselves.

• Oleg → Marina (Social Bar Companion) — They share the central bar encounter and participate in the same conversation.

  Oleg and Marina are together in the all-night Moscow bar while they exchange made-up biographies.

Story Analysis

Three strangers invent extraordinary identities in a Moscow bar, then find those fantasies intruding into everyday life.

Plot Progression

1. The Overnight Gathering — Oleg, Marina, and Volodya enter an all-night Moscow bar. A narcoleptic bartender serves them as the film establishes its strange numerical motif.
2. Biographies Made Of Lies — The three visitors exchange invented biographies. Oleg claims administrative power, while Marina adopts the identity of a marketing executive.
3. Volodya's Impossible Laboratory — Volodya claims to be a geneticist cloning twins in a laboratory operating since Stalin's era. His fantasy becomes the most elaborate story of the night.
4. Reality After Separation — The three characters separate and return to their everyday lives. Their invented realities, particularly Volodya's, begin to dominate ordinary experience.