The Puppet Syndrome

Since early childhood Peter has been obsessed with the world of puppets, but his greater obsession is with a real girl, Lisa. He crafts his perfect woman out of her. But Lisa isn't a docile marionette. She's a living human being and she rebels against her creator. Based on the critically-acclaimed, brilliant and poignant novel by one of the best contemporary Russian writers, Dina Rubina, "Petrushka Syndrome" is a multidimensional metaphor, where a sense of duality pervades everything. People and dolls, life and art, the Creator and the creation depend on one another. And where does one draw the line between them?

• Elena HazanovaDirector
• Alyona AlovaScreenplay
• Nicolas RabaeusOriginal Music Composer

• Evgeny MironovPyotr
• Chulpan KhamatovaLiza
• Merab NinidzeBoris
• Yuliya MarchenkoKatya
• Vladimir SeleznyovRomka
• Aleksandr KuznetsovPetya in his youth
• Alexey LyubimovBoris in his youth
• Alina GvasaliyaLiza in her youth
• Era ZiganshinaVera Leopoldovna, Borya's grandmother
• Alexey VedernikovEva's boyfriend
• Filipp ErshovPetya's friend in his youth
• Kirill FrolovPetya's friend in his youth