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A woman tries to get rid of her husband’s body after he is accidentally killed by a doctor. The protagonist finds herself in even deeper trouble when she encounters an eccentric man who has just escaped from a psychiatric hospital. Together they are a walking disaster—every action they take from this point only makes things worse.
Muratova described this impulsive and astonishing film as “half thriller, half vaudeville.” The picture is saturated with laughter and fear, life energy and despair, mourning and celebration. It moves masterfully between genres—from drama to absurdist comedy, from satire to grotesque and even Grand Guignol.
Doctors accidentally kill their patients, and the only ones who turn out to be normal and humane are the mad ones. Life suddenly flips into death and back again. And all of this happens in lurches and spins, conjuring a comically inverted world where joy, madness, and sorrow merge into a single whole.
The Dovzhenko Centre presents a new scan of the film
