Anatoliy Drizhenko

This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality - if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.

A modest girl, Svetlana, unfortunately got involved with a seasoned speculator, whose husband brought expensive things from different countries, and they sold everything they brought at exorbitant prices. Soon, Svetlana's excessive fascination with clothes led to her spiritual impoverishment...

The history of Bender's hunt for the underground millionaire Koreiko develops in the 1920s. Bright characters, adventurous adventures and a light veil of a bygone era in a new version of the classic work of Soviet literature.