Cold Souls is a 2009
comedy-drama film written and directed by
Sophie Barthes. The film features
Paul Giamatti,
Dina Korzun,
Emily Watson, and
David Strathairn. Giamatti stars as a fictionalised version of himself, an anxious, overwhelmed actor who decides to enlist the service of a company to deep freeze his soul. Complications ensue when his soul gets lost in a soul trafficking scheme which has taken his soul to
St. Petersburg. The film then follows Giamatti desperately trying to recover his soul.