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To relieve Queen Genia’s melancholy, the android engineer Trull builds machines that tell her stories. Their nested tales follow a supercomputer made for a king, a ruler lost in erotic dream cupboards, and a castaway who becomes an enemy of technology. The stories reflect on human existence and the limits of progress; in the finale, Trull kills his clone.
In a Russian provincial inn, card sharp Icharjev meets three other gamblers. They decide to cheat the elderly estate owner Michail Glov through his son Alexander, who signs a bill for 200,000 rubles. The others pass the bill to Icharjev, take his cash, and leave on a pretext. Alexander then reveals that they were a gang of card sharps who have cheated Icharjev.
To relieve Queen Genia’s melancholy, the android engineer Trull builds machines that tell her stories. Their nested tales follow a supercomputer made for a king, a ruler lost in erotic dream cupboards, and a castaway who becomes an enemy of technology. The stories reflect on human existence and the limits of progress; in the finale, Trull kills his clone.
In a Russian provincial inn, card sharp Icharjev meets three other gamblers. They decide to cheat the elderly estate owner Michail Glov through his son Alexander, who signs a bill for 200,000 rubles. The others pass the bill to Icharjev, take his cash, and leave on a pretext. Alexander then reveals that they were a gang of card sharps who have cheated Icharjev.