Steps to Nowhere (1992)

Documentary №35196, 2 parts, duration: 0:17:20
Production: Centrnauchfilm (CNF)
Director:V. Kobrin
Screenwriters:V. Kalashnikov, V. Kobrin
Camera operators:V. Ivanov, M. Kamionskij, I. Bekker
Sound mixer:L. Shutova
Music designer:S. Vasilenko
Painter:V. Buzkov
Other authors:O. Surgucheva, M. Prosmushkin, A. Latiev, A. Topu, N. Fedorova, T. Uspenskaya

Annotation:

The film is dedicated to the ethical freedom of choice between evil and good, the theme of the absurdity of being, mental anomalies that have become more acute in the modern world.

Reel №1 Steps to Nowhere

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The page of the encyclopedic dictionary in front of the monitor screen.

Iron bed in the room, legs on the TV screen.

A man sits at a post, smoking.

A broken grand piano in an autumn park, on the grand piano there is a burning candle in a candlestick.

An old typewriter in front of the monitor.

View of a part of an abstract composition made of metal parts.

A man's face.

A blind man in a wheelchair sits at a broken grand piano, covered with autumn leaves.

Wooden structure on the grass.

The blind man begins to play the piano, the light bulb lights up and goes out (combined shooting).

A running line with words written in Cyrillic and Latin letters.

The man is sitting on the bed in the room, watching TV KVN-49.

A TV and an iron bed with a mattress in the room.

A man's face.

An hourglass in the form of light bulbs inside a human figure.

An abstract structure on a lawn, with a naked man visible through it.

The convex face of a man (combined shooting).

People in the park go into the gazebo, pass by it (shooting at an accelerated pace, from above).

The steering wheel of a car against the background of trees and a scarecrow on a branch.

A man in long johns in a narrow opening of a brick wall.

A man in black glasses lies on an iron bed in a room, the interior of the room, a man disappears from the bed (combined shooting).

A man's face.

Paintings that symbolize the absurdity of being.

A typewriter in front of the monitor.

A man's face.

A symbolic picture on the monitor screen.

A man at the stove in the open air.

Calendar: 1992

Locations: Moscow [820]

Reel №2

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The watch face is mirrored.

A man's face.

The old TV in the room, the picture on the screen.

The man opens the attic hatch.

The faces of two men looking at each other.

The blind man in the room sits down on the bed.

Electronic images of figures on the glasses of dark glasses (combined shooting).

A typewriter in front of the monitor.

A man from the attic climbs up the stairs to the roof.

A shot.

The interior of the room.

A man in hospital pajamas is sitting on a bed in the fresh air, a cassette recorder is on the table.

A man at an iron stove (filmed upside down).

A man in black glasses is sitting on the bed, smoking a cigarette.

Black cat behind bars.

Photo of a woman and a man wearing black glasses.

A man with his eyes closed imagines women in his imagination (combined shooting).

Abstract sculpture made of metal parts connected to a monitor.

The scale of the control device.

The lines of force are absorbed by an abstract metal structure.

A person moves on a fantastic vehicle (combined shooting).

The bare feet of a man running on the asphalt.

A person in a chair, behind him, various characters change (combined shooting).

A portrait of a woman receding into the darkness.

Abstract sculpture made of metal parts.

A man burning paper in a toilet bowl.

A person in a chair surrounded by various characters (combined shooting).

The feet of a man walking on the asphalt.

A man with black glasses who fell to the ground.

Part of the interior of the room, a record player and a TV, on the screen the inscription "Proletarian over the Cuckoo's nest".

A person in a wheelchair sits in a park and listens to a cuckoo, disappears from the chair (combined shooting).

Alternating geometric shapes on the monitor screen, a burning candle in front of the monitor.

A man chained to a chair.

Wheelchair under the trees, fire over the stroller (combined shooting).

Image of a human head.

A structure made of a rusty wheelchair and metal parts, a lantern flickers.

Part of the interior of the room.

Sand falls in an hourglass, the face of a man on the monitor screen.

Abstract sculptures made of metal parts.

Rectangles on the monitor screen against the background of a forest landscape (combined shooting).

Piano keys in the park, music score appears from the flame (combined shooting).

A man's face.

Cat in front of the piano keyboard.

geometric shapes on the monitor screen against the background of a forest panorama (combined shooting).

A broken grand piano in a neglected park, covered with leaves.

A running line on the monitor screen, alternating letters and words.

A man's face.

Calendar: 1992

Locations: Moscow [820]

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