An experimental and at the same time universal uttering about the nature of tyranny and totalitarianism. The film is based on an archival chronicle of Stalin's performance at the Grand Theatre in Moscow in 1937. Theatre, initially, is a performative space. In the classical sense, it is divided into artists and spectators. But in it film, these roles are more complicated. Sometimes it's hard to say for sure: the audience clap because they like what they see and hear, or because they play the role of spectators in this theatre.
