The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Человек, который удивил всех)

Celebrating 20 years of bold and fabulous auteur cinema by Homeless Bob Productions. We will continue our retrospective with Venice celebrated co-production "The Man Who Surprised Everyone".

Egor is a fearless state forest guard in the Siberian Taiga. He is a good family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. But one day Egor finds out that he has cancer and only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save him. Finally, left with no other options, he takes a desperate attempt to trick death. Egor chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease. His family and the local society now have to accept his new self.

Tchelovek kotorij udivil vseh is a parable about the resistance of the ordinary Russian man to death, which he is trying to deceive. The film is based on the personal memories of the director Natasha Merkulova, her Siberian childhood, the village in which she grew up, the people who surrounded her, the legends that were told in those places.