Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

"Dust"

(Russia, 2005)

An independent, low-budget recent Russian film shot on digital camera. Lesha Sergeev is a sluggish, overweight fellow who lives with his grandmother, who controls every aspect of his life. Somehow Lesha is selected by the FSB (the modern-day Russian secret police, the new "KGB") for a secret experiment. As a result of the experiment, Lesha sees his elusive, flickering double, a more athletic, handsome version of himself. He chases after his "other body" all over Moscow, providing a tour of Putin’s Russia.