Synopsis
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?
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Elena HazanovaDirector
- Alyona AlovaScreenplay
- Nicolas RabaeusOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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
Themes
woman director