A bowling ball sends a skeptic to purgatory—and he finally learns to live.
Many people assume that life does not end after death. Not Dr. Tyrsa, practical and skeptical man, who never believed in this nonsense. However, thanks to the bowling accident, he finds himself in a desert land with people like him not belonging to this world yet not accepted into the other. Now Dr. Tyrsa realizes that the life he used to live was not so bad, and he's got something worth returning to.
Acting
Krasko's grumpy everyman anchors the absurd
Production
Soviet-era limbo aesthetics hit different
Writing
Dark humor softens the afterlife logistics
Director
Karen Oganesyan
Andrey Krasko
Victor Tyrsa
Fyodor Bondarchuk
instructor-guide of souls
Elena Yakovleva
Natalya Tyrsa
Nelly Uvarova
Evgeniya Tyrsa
Andrey Sokolov
Gleb Shahov
Vladimir Yepifantsev
Anton
Alyona Bondarchuk
Anna
Irina Grineva
Yulya
Galina Polskikh
Svetlana Yurievna
Konstantin Solovyov
Boris
Georgi Martirosyan
Yuriy Zatonskiy
Yevgeni Zharikov
Oleg Saprunov
Semyon Furman
Viktor Tyrsa (voice)
Konstantin Vorobyov
assistant
Natalya Stukalina
Ksyusha
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Karen Oganesyan was one of few women directing commercial Russian cinema in the 2000s.
The film adapts Sergey Mavrodi's novel, blending Orthodox purgatory concepts with Soviet administrative satire.
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