A film of stunning visual beauty and invention that constantly surprises and delights, Khroustaliov, My Car! was first screened at the Festival in 1998. Set in Moscow during the 1950s, it tells the story of Yuri Glinsky, a womanizing Red Army General, whose life as a brain specialist in charge of a hospital and as head of a large family household, is turned upside down when he is swept up in Stalin's infamous "Doctor's Plot" to purge the medical profession of its Jewish elements. Dragged into this phoney conspiracy by a KGB double, General Glinsky, in order to evade arrest, flees, only to be captured and summoned back to Moscow by Beria, the head of the secret service, when his considerable medical skills are desperately needed. Director Alexeï Guerman plunges the viewer into the madhouse of Stalin's Russia, then flashes forward to ten years later, when we find the General on a train crossing Russia, having fled Moscow as well as his family for good.