The silence of the endless city (2004)

Foliage in a puddle.

Deserted streets of Moscow, old buildings.

Historical and architectural monuments.

Interspersed: archival photographs and posters from the late 19th - early 20th centuries, old buildings.

Details of ornamentation and other decorations on buildings and fences.

Factory buildings.

Paving stones on the pavement.

Chronicle of the early 20th century: A locomotive starts moving.

People walk down the street.

An airplane propeller turns.

Armed and sanitary detachments on the streets.

People walk past statues.

Factory buildings.

Chronicle of the early 20th century: Workers speak at rallies.

Demonstrators with flags and slogans.

Army detachments march through the city.

Cavalry (view from above).

Tank troops.

Soldiers with banners.

Demonstrators.

Conductor of a military orchestra.

A man is rocked in arms.

People dance in a crowd.

Demonstrators in costumes.

A monument (the camera turns).

Factory buildings behind the fence.

Chronicle of the early 20th century: A demonstration passes by monuments (alternating with a chronicle of our days).

Propaganda posters.

A stream of people on the streets.

Mosaic panels.

A child examines the panel.

The rotunda fountain in front of the Uzbek SSR pavilion ("Culture") at VDNKh.

Columns in front of the entrance to the Central Pavilion.

A sculpture on the roof of the pavilion.

A view of the statue on the roof of the Belarusian pavilion.

A sculptural group in front of the entrance to the Ukraine pavilion.

A horse-drawn carriage passes along the path, a child walks toward the pavilion.

A view from below of a balcony under the roof of one of the pavilions.

A child walks along the edge of the Stone Flower fountain.

Alternation: sculptures of the Friendship of Peoples fountain, fragments of a mosaic panel.

Stalin's high-rise (apartment building at 1 Kudrinskaya Square).

Balloons, sculpture.

Clouds in the sky.

Modern Moscow, traffic flows, billboards.

Crowds in the streets.

Fountain on Manezhnaya Square.

Sculptures made of scrap metal.

Monument to Peter the Great ("In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the Russian Navy").

Streets of Moscow, beggars on the sidewalks.

Billboard with the image of B.N. Yeltsin.

Shelling of the White House.

Statue of Themis near the building of the Supreme Court of Russia.

Traffic flows.

Evening Moscow (gambling and entertainment establishments, young people on the streets, illuminated advertising).

Traffic (camera is inverted).

Explosions and fires.

Alternation: statues and tombstones, young men and women in a cemetery, ancient churches.

A boy looks at the monument to A.S. Pushkin.