La Maison haute

For more than 50 years, the Moscow Skyscraper, this "unsinkable Titanic", has been a metaphor for Russia and its vast people. It was after the victory over Nazi Germany that Stalin launched the project of the Skyscraper. And barely a few months before he died, the skyscraper’s first inhabitants moved into their new homes. They were all members of the Nomenklatura: KGB officers, military personnel, poets, ballerinas, actors, and theatre people... Fifty years later, some still live there. Others bequeathed their apartment to their descendants, who live alongside the new Russians, whose fortunes were made in a matter of months. In the hallways of the building, acclaimed director Pavel Lounguine set off in search of the Russian soul. He knocked at the doors of this mythic edifice and through its residents he has given us an ironic, off-beat and poetic portrait of today’s Russia.