The Man Who Couldn't DieIn the chaos of early 1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralysed veteran conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep himand his pensionalive, until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova's The Man Who Couldn't Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a lifeand the means and meaning of their own livesby creating a world that doesn't change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled. After her