Release: 9 February 2003 Germany
Genre: Drama
Region: Russia Ukraine Italy France Germany
Language: Russian
Length: 92 mins
Color: Color
Sound: Dolby Digital ( DolbyDigital)
Director:: Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Starring: Aleksandr-Yatsenko, Artur-Povolotsky, Ivan Kokorin ( Ivan Kokorin)
Introduction
In a small seaside town in Russia live three 18-year-olds, Asya, Botya, and Platon, who live in a world of poverty and occasional petty crimes. The three have one ****ing desire to leave the slow-paced, humble town and find more meaning in their lives. They go to a very large seaside town and see a GUCCI suit in a window, which they agree to pay any price to buy. When stealing doesn't work, they get an income by stealing goods from a freight train for a big brother, and half-buy, half-rob the suit from a cockney. The trio excitedly envision changing their lives with the suit.
Asya's mother, who makes her living by yelling and hawking tomatoes, potatoes and other groceries along the town's dirt roads. Mother and son depend on each other, and Asya loves his mother very much. One day, he goes to see his mother in his new suit, and she is delighted and says that she is going to her solo recital soon. In a sunken square, his mother walks to the center of the stage in a white blouse. Her fingers strummed on the strings of her harp while her face shifted slowly. She ran away from the stage, chanting, "Tomatoes, potatoes, tomatoes, potatoes. ......" It turned out that this woman, abandoned by her husband and exhausted by life, had begun to suffer a mild schizophrenia. Faced with his mother curled up in bed, the son felt at a loss. He takes a pocket knife to his backstabbing father. The father is the tailor, a loose cannon and equally neurotic. The father and son have a fight, but are still destined to make peace. Only, when waking up with a start, Asya realizes that his father has disappeared again. He chases him to the dock, where his father shouts at him from the ship, "I told your mother a long time ago that she and I are two of a kind and cannot be together." Asya ran after the ship for a long time in his suit ......
Botya lives with his father and stepmother. Botya is angry with his stepmother, who is young, beautiful and slutty, and often goes out with young men, but he doesn't realize that he is also fantasizing and falling in love with her. Once he sees his stepmother flirting with a man at the fancy restaurant where he works, he grabs the suit from his companion and rushes into the restaurant to cause trouble, only to be undressed and beaten out. Later that night, on the ferry home, he found his stepmother in a pool of blood. He carries his stepmother and prepares to go to the hospital, but is detained by the police. It turns out that it was all the work of his father, who has long been in a state of jealous resentment, and he, in turn, has become a scapegoat. By the time Botya gets out of jail, his stepmother has also left the city. He was left bewildered.
Platon is the most foolish and naive of the three. But he falls in love with the beautiful young fish-selling girl. He first goes to great lengths to come to the woman's store as a delivery boy and protects her several times with his recklessness and sincerity. Finally, one day, Platon intends to gather the courage to tell the love in his heart. After making all kinds of preparations, dressed in a suit and holding flowers in his hand, he walked towards the woman he loved with the encouragement of his partner. Perhaps because of his sincerity, perhaps because of a fluke, the woman surprisingly accepted his love. As he happily sang a little song and walked back by the pier, a guy who had unsuccessfully pursued the fish-selling girl rushed out and stabbed him hard twice in the body. Happiness comes too fast and goes even faster. The suit and Platon fall into the deep end together.
The movie ends with Asya and Botya deciding to leave the town. The suit is worn by a madman who spends his life holding a goat.