The Nose

A surreal descent into bureaucracy and chaos.
At the newspaper office, Kovalyov’s desperate attempt to report his missing nose collapses into absurd resistance — a mechanized world where personal crises are met with blank stares and endless paper. Here, bureaucracy is not a system but a machine that devours. At the train station, the absurdity only deepens. Kovalyov chases his runaway nose — now a high-ranking officer — through a distorted station where time slips, reality bends, and order is only an illusion. In this world, the more Kovalyov runs, the more the ground beneath him shifts.