Acclaimed director Timofey Kulyabin relocates Maxim Gorky’s brilliant turn-of-the-century masterpiece into a high-stakes, hyper-modern intellectual landscape. Captured live with exceptional clarity, the production follows a group of privileged, idealistic academics completely consumed by their scientific pursuits and personal passions, utterly oblivious to the societal unrest gathering just outside their doors. Kulyabin replaces standard period melodrama with a clinical, fast-paced psychological precision, guiding a brilliant ensemble cast to expose the timeless divide between the intellectual elite and the turning tides of the real world.

Presented in Russian w/ English subtitles