Logline
Over the course of a lifetime, two devoted couples navigate love’s contradictions, loyalty and betrayal, truth and illusion, only to discover, too late, that the love they built their lives around was never quite what it seemed.
Trailer
Cast
Denny
«Love is a paralysis of selfishnes»
Denny
«Love is when you are smiling like an idiot, even though no one said anything funny»
Denny
«Love is practically when you make something pleasant to someone and taking care of your loved one»
Sandra
«Love is when you are not an adult, everyone is looking at you and smiling and you are smiling, and everyone is still alive»
Sandra
«Love is an obsession that changes reality»
Albert
«Being in love, I got an absolutely clear feeling of how "Romeo and Juliet" should be staged and played»
Albert
«Love is when you give without any anticipation to receive anything in return»
Margaret
«Love can be not only mutual, because I have loved you all my life»
Margaret
«Love is the god and the law of our infinite universe»
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Alisa Melikova, Director
After many returns to Vyrypaev’s play "Illusions", I found the key that was essential for me: to tell a story imagined by a man in a quiet female voice — moving the main characters, two couples, into a vast, colorful, boisterous New York, to live and try to answer life’s most essential questions. As time passes, the city dissolves into the horizon; music turns into the sound of wind, voices into distant echoes, and silence takes over. Colors grow transparent. The ocean, a recurring motif, offers no peace and no answer. The film is steeped in a kind of homage to the great examples of world cinema.
Based on the play “Illusions” by Ivan Vyrypaev. The rights of Ivan Vyrypaev are represented by henschel SCHAUSPIEL Berlin
© Illusions | 2025