On the last months of life of the famous revolutionary, politician, President of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Soviet Republic.
"Our film - an attempt to show how the ideas of communism, psychology, infatuation that turns people into merciless killers. The idea of burning the Communists in all human and for them there is no specific living people around, and there are only symbols of the idea - classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, bloodsucking landlords and poor peasants ... One of the brightest representatives of the ideas of communism in the world was Leon Trotsky's birthday which was accomplished by the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia. " Edward Volodarsky.

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Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter.
Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...

On the edge of Dushanbe, in the Republic of Tajikistan, a quiet border checkpoint under Russian control is attacked by Afghans and Tajiks who want it under their control.