Смерть пахнет сандалом

Smutnye vremena perezhivaet Podnebesnai͡a: nemet͡skie dʹi͡avoly stroi͡at zheleznui͡u dorogu, narushai͡ushchui͡u pori͡adok veshcheĭ. Intervent͡sii͡a, vspykhnuvshie narodnye vosstanii͡a v provint͡sii Shanʹdun i chinovnichʹi intrigi stanovi͡atsi͡a panoramoĭ dli͡a pronzitelʹnogo si͡uzheta o tragicheskoĭ sudʹbe opernogo pevt͡sa i narodnogo geroi͡a Sunʹ Bina, kotorogo prigovarivai͡ut k zhestokoĭ kazni sandalovogo dereva. Istorii͡a o chuvstvakh i trogatelʹnykh vzaimootnoshenii͡akh, o tradit͡sii͡akh i pami͡ati, o sile li͡udeĭ i pravde, kotorai͡a priotkryvaetsi͡a lishʹ v iskazhenii. Netrivialʹnyĭ vzgli͡ad na chelovecheskui͡u sutʹ, vystavlennui͡u na sud tolpy, delaet "Smertʹ pakhnet sandalom" intellektualʹnym shedevrom, povestvui͡ushchim o tom, chto dazhe smertʹ mozhet statʹ nastoi͡ashchim iskusstvom.

The Middle Kingdom is going through troubled times: German devils are building a railroad that disrupts the order of things. The intervention, the outbreak of popular uprisings in Shandong Province and official intrigues become a panorama for a poignant story about the tragic fate of opera singer and folk hero Sun Bin, who is sentenced to a brutal sandalwood execution. A story about feelings and touching relationships, about traditions and memory, about the power of people and the truth, which is revealed only in distortion. A non-trivial view of the human essence, exposed to the crowd, makes "Death smells like sandalwood" an intellectual masterpiece, telling that even death can become a real art.