4 is a 2004 Russian drama film directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky after a screenplay by Vladimir Sorokin.^[1] Originally it was conceived as a short film, but turned into a full-length film after four years of work.

Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner "simply Volodya" drop into an all-night bar in Moscow, where they are served by a narcoleptic bartender (three plus one is four) while each regales the others with made-up biographies. Oleg claims to work in President Putin's administration, supplying him with bottled water and his wife with liquor; Marina passes herself off as a marketing executive; and Volodya, the infamous lead singer of the rock group Leningrad, as a geneticist who clones twins (two times two makes four, again) in a laboratory that has been engaged in these experiments since the days of Stalin. After they separate, these fantasy realities, especially Volodya's, begin to dominate their everyday lives.

• Marina Vovchenko as Marina
• Sergey Shnurov as Volodya
• Yuri Laguta as Oleg
• Konstantin Murzenko as Marat
• Alexei Khvostenko as a Man with No Age
• Anatoly Adoskin as Oleg's Father
• Leonid Fyodorov as Sergey
• Andrey Kudryashov as a Bartender
• Shavkat Abdusalamov as a Meat-Processing Plant Manager
• Natalya Tetenova as Sveta
• Irina Vovchenko as Sonya
• Svetlana Vovchenko as Vera

The film won the VPRO Tiger Award (shared with Daniele Gaglianone's Changing Destiny and Mercedes Álvarez's The Sky Turns) at the 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam.^[2]