A little tightrope walker boy named Axel crashed in a circus, but an oriental psychic brings his body back to life. Karl, obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal order in the world, the master of the psychic, buried the corpse of an orphan instead of Axel, and began to teach the boy's body Russian and train for espionage in the service of the Wehrmacht. Axel became a German intelligence officer, a professional of the highest class and soon appeared in his "native" village under the guise of the grandson of the recently deceased Pelagia...

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During the 1996 Russian Presidential elections, the team of advisors for one of the candidates are disturbed by the fact that he seems to have concealed from them the existence of an ex-wife. In order to defuse what they perceive as a potentially damaging situation, they decide to invite her to join their team, thus showing the voters and the country a fine example of a civilised divorce.