After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society…

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect…

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area’s pagan past still have a hold on the population.

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the “gangsters” and “philanthropists” end up in the courtroom.