The film is set in cycles stories Valery Bryusova united as "the axis of Earth": "In the mirror," "Marble head," "Now, when I woke up and others have no heroine named. She - is a passion, materialized in his sick imagination. Poddavshis will of his patient, the doctor initially falls in love with her and then becomes a murderer. Actor Andrei Kharitonov (Ovod", "invisible man"), his director debut "thirst of passion" has proved that wants and knows how to put trillery. Do not hide "filmotechnosti" address the many scenes (such as quotations from "The Shining" S. Kubrika), director precise and hard-put action. The story of a phantom mirror-twin, presluduyuschem young aristokratku taken from the novel by Valery Bryusova, spoke from the screen on all the rules of classical trillera a la Hitchcock. Ominous pause. Premonition of the horrific events. Cold erotic. Elegance of style. All these components are attached to "thirst of passion" required genre's image. Of course, Kharitonov - not Kubrick. And do not even De Palma. However, he is in possession of the profession. And the actors he snyalis good. Anastasia Vertinskaya looks impressive in both its ipostasyah - real and prizrachnoy. And Igor Kostolevsky in the role of Commissioner of Police can compete with any overseas criminal inspector series.