Dmitriy Khoronko

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One day, following a grueling performance at a nightclub, jazz-cabaret star Astrov wakes up in his hotel room to find an underage fan in his bed. The girl claims that Astrov raped her and threatens to jump from the balcony. An alert chambermaid immediately calls the police, and a terrible scandal erupts… The tabloid press rubs its hands in gleeful anticipation, certain that the jazz musician is about to be thrown behind bars for the defilement of an underage orphan—a girl whose mother died in childbirth… Yet, in the end, Astrov’s honor is vindicated, and the girl’s innocence is proven.

To ensure that the viewer guessed in the name of Ilfipetrov that Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov were separate, the authors collected an impressive evidence base: live testimonies were obtained in Moscow, Odessa, Yaroslavl, Paris, New York; in the exact repetition of the route of "One-storied America", in miraculously preserved family archives.

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.