Anatoly Osmolovsky

The Soviet Russia of old is an immobile head without a body that appears in various locations, clashing with the morals and sentiments of a modern rich man. This man seeks advise from the head but finds that it is annoyingly unresponsive or unhelpful as it sends him on various missions and tests. At times he uses violence or oral rape to get what he wants until he grows too exasperated. Most of the movie consists of improvised dialogue or rants, and meandering scenes in a weapons shop, a railway, and a meeting where the man performs a bizarre magic performance with chickens, eggs and a cardboard box..

Two Russian prisoners are abused mentally and physically.

A constantly vomiting and ranting manager, an abused employee and the lowly, mentally challenged janitors work in a bar. There's constant drinking, self-abuse with a vodka bottle in a scene that looks real, a virgin bride is bloodily deflowered on a bar table, a weeping customer finds happiness in drink and strip-dancing, the employee strip-dances and covers himself in filth, and is then dressed up in the virgin's dress and molested.

Civil War. Southern steppes of Russia. Circumstances bring together various people: the Chekist, professor, actor, nurse and White Guard officer posing as a vet. On two tachanka's they make their way into the city.