Macha et Dacha : les sœurs siamoises

Macha and Dacha Krivoshliapova are fifty one years old. The have never lived without each other. Macha and Dacha are Siamese twins. For half a century they been locked, up knowing little beyond the dark walls of Soviet hospitals, the partitions of cell-like spaces in institutions for the handicapped or this tiny room in an old people's home south of Moscow, where they are surviving today as best they can. It was here, in "House number six for the old" formerly used for retired Red Army members, that we found them last September. We proposed to make this film about them and brought up the possibility of their coming overt to France, a country they, like many other Russians, have often dreamt of visiting.