'The film doesn't aim to give lessons to other filmmakers nor to the audience on any pattern for watching, speaking, thinking or performing. It's much more an experience, a test, an essay. I don't hide my simpathy for the protagonist nor the tragic foresight that, possibly, doesn't correspond to the actual siuation.For me, it was good enough to have met the Man living inside the most important character of the Russian Parliament, the most renowned of the Russian Parliament, a Man of the great politics.' Alexander Sokurov