During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.
Sergey Shakurov
Mukhin
Liliya Aleshnikova
Lida / Lidiya / Livia
Aleksandr Palees
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Valeri Kozinets
Spartacus / metro train driver
Nikolai Rybnikov
Benckendorff / Titus Valerius / inquisitor
Nikolai Sergeyev
physics teacher / Galileo Galilei
Ivan Ryzhov
senator / director / singing monk / storekeeper at St. Paul's Monastery
Yuri Chekulayev
Claudius
Semyon Safonov
equipment inspector / Roman drinker man / inquisitor priest / priest confessing Mukhin
During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
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