The Hunting Party

Synopsis

Each of the East-bloc party loyalists gathered for a hunting weekend at an icy mountain retreat has a personal tale involving their mutual host, Vassily Chevchenko, a Communist Party patriarch whose career dates back to Lenin's time. As his guests reminisce, Chevchenko, his leonine countenance long frozen by paralysis, turns his thoughts to Vera Nikolayevna and a separate realm of memory, flesh and mortality unfolds.