This is an hilarious if paranoid glance at the misadventures of cinematographic works, and a tip of the hat to the pioneers of the Soviet cinema. The film takes Lev Kuleshov's most famous experiment with editing-in which the expressionless face of the actor Mosjoukine was juxtaposed with a plate of food, a dead body, a baby, for differing effects-and follows a rediscovered copy through the permutations of film history, from Stalinist Russia to Japan and right up to our own avant-garde.