Valeri Krishtapenko

A biologist, obsessed with the idea of writing a treatise on a new kind of mouse, becomes witness to a number of bizarre and horrific events, from his son's suicide, to the S&M engaged in by respectable middle-aged men, to his own family's psychic morbidity.

The main character is crazy about about depicting various anomalies in art. Accidentally he finds a cinematography archive which makes him advance a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal. Yufit proceeds with the plot by describing a scientist struggling against the epidemic wave of anomalies in the physical and mental world thematically started in his other films. This time the struggle takes place on the background of paleoanthropology, psychoanalysis and modern art. As materials of the Museum of Anthropology and other archives are included in the film, it oversteps the boundary between a feature film and documentary.

En 1817. Minon, une fillette de 5 ans, quitte sa tante Thérèse de Brunswick, qui l'a élevée comme une mère depuis sa naissance, pour s'en aller vivre auprès de ses parents, le comte et la comtesse von Stakelberg. Un jour, Gabrielle, sa gouvernante, qui n'a plus toute sa raison, lui révèle que son véritable père est le compositeur Ludwig van Beethoven. Vingt ans plus tard, toujours intriguée par cette confidence, Minon décide de percer le mystère de ses origines. Elle revient alors sur les lieux de sa petite enfance, avec l'espoir de trouver la vérité auprès de sa tante, qui fut pendant des années l'amie fidèle du grand compositeur...

The necrorealist science fiction plot involves a team of scientists attempting to cross a human being with a tree, and a special unit dispatched to hunt down the zombie-like mutants created in a previous, failed experiment