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Vitya, a 40-year-old taxi driver who aspired to become a writer in his youth, leaves this dream after a series of failures. He lives quietly in a communal apartment with idle neighbors, delivers hated passengers all over Moscow every day. One day Vitya decides to pretend to be the mysterious Viktor Pelevin.
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RU

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.

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