Synopsis
Boris Efimov’s pen had churned out political cartoons for the Soviet press on just about every world event in the past hundred years. But behind his titanic career, his charm and his wit, is what Efimov calls “a wound that does not heal”: the execution of his older brother Mikhail Koltsov. Koltsov was a famous journalist, pal of Earnest Hemingway and Soviet spy; but he always looked out for his younger brother Boris, who to his dying day worked and slept under his older brother’s portrait. The keys to Koltsov‘s fate and Efimov’s contradictory attitude toward it are bound up in their complex relationship with Stalin. Efimov’s words, drawings and animated films are interwoven with rarely seen footage from the Russian State Film Archives...