SYNOPSIS

There is a state of emergency in Moscow. The voice from loudspeakers is giving various official but meaningless orders to residents. There is no definite information about what exactly is occurring. A lonely man in his thirties loses his dog and this makes him venture out to figure out what is happening. He explores the city and finds a place where reality splits in two and it forces the events of the film to be repeated from the very beginning.

INTENTION

“Dva” means “two” in Russian, I do not translate the title in the script and in the subtitles because of its phonetical power. It has a universal connotation of duality. The main idea of the film is that for any perceptible event, object and action there is a space for the unrevealed and inexplicable. The central theme of the film is the relationship between the visible and the invisible.

It is a poetic film with some mythical narrative elements. At the same time, the story is an intimate reflection of modern Russian reality. It harkens back to the wave of esotericism that prevailed in the post-Soviet ‘90s in Russia. I remember back then everyone was taking refuge in mysticism in the face of a complex and depressive socio-political situation that many people were not prepared for. I see something similar happening nowadays. 

The film relays how an individual tends to ignore political reality despite the lingering anxiety beyond the escapism. In the same breath Dva is devoted to such a layer of existence where politics is inconsequential. Something mysterious and unknowable is the focal point of the characters.