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This is the first feature film by Zvyagintsev in almost ten years. The plot is based on Claude Chabrol's film "The Unfaithful Wife" (1968). It tells the story of a businessman who, in 2022, faces the necessity of providing the military enlistment office with data about his company's employees for mobilization while simultaneously discovering his wife's infidelity.

The script was written by Zvyagintsev together with Semyon Lyashenko. The filming took place in Latvia. The film features Dmitry Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Anton Litvinov, Boris Kudrin, Yuri Zavalnyuk, and Varvara Shmykova.

Andrei Zvyagintsev is one of the leading directors in Russian and world cinema, the author of famous films such as "The Return," "Leviathan," "Elena," and "Loveless," a winner of the Venice Film Festival and a laureate of the Cannes Film Festival, and a two-time nominee for the Academy Award.

"I died and then came back to life"

It is worth noting that the director's previous feature film, the socio-psychological drama "Loveless," was released in 2017. Such a long pause in the director's work was due to a serious illness.

In early July 2021, Zvyagintsev contracted COVID-19. The director's condition was extremely severe: his lungs were affected by 92%, and sepsis began. In mid-August, the director was taken to Germany. In one of the clinics in Hanover, he was placed in a clinical coma.

"I was hit by all means, – the director recounted about his illness. – Just imagine: after an artificial coma lasting forty days and a literal resurrection from the dead, as the doctors in Germany told me – they 'lost' me twice and were sure that the worst would happen to me any day – after such an experience, it is impossible to talk about a full recovery. I died, and then I came back to life."