The Specimen

Directed by Ulrike Ottinger

With Hanns Zischler, Raymond Wolff, Thorsten Heidel, Heidi Maria von Plato and Eva Ebner

When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high status - falls in deep, lethargic sleep. 20 years later he wakes up and finds himself in a post-revolutionary, still young Soviet Union. He is stunned. He is shocked. But a philistine always finds his way.