Names (1996)

View of one of the streets of St.

Petersburg (from above).

An elderly woman named Asya with a crutch and a string bag descends the steps onto the sidewalk, stands, walks along the sidewalk, leaning on her crutch.

A portrait of a man on the wall, an elderly man with glasses sits on a sofa.

A photograph of a girl in the hands of a man.

Asya is standing on the sidewalk, cars are driving by and people are walking by.

The girl helps Asya cross the street, passers-by on the street Pedestrians are crossing the street, the girl helps Asya walk.

The face of an elderly man - Asya's friend.

Asya crosses the street, goes to the arch of house No. 13, where her friend Emmanuel lives.

Emmanuel is at home, drinking from a mug, Emmanuel's face.

Animation.

A crust of black bread on a plate, becoming moldy.

Appearing and changing faces (animation).

Asya in her friend's apartment, goes into the room, takes off her coat.

Asya's face, looking at old photographs.

Asya is looking at photographs.

Asya's coat is hanging on the back of a chair.

Asya is sitting on the sofa, Emmanuel is standing by the window, climbs onto the windowsill, closes the vent, walks across the room to Asya, sits down next to her on the sofa.

Emmanuel and Asya are sitting on the sofa, talking.

A young man is sitting and writing in a notebook.

A seagull is flying under the bridge over the Neva.

A young man is writing in a notebook.

A young man is sitting on the iron roof of one of the houses in St.

Petersburg, making notes in a notebook.

Iron roofs of houses in one of the old quarters of St.

Petersburg.

Texts of letters from residents of besieged Leningrad.

A girl is reading letters.

Photographs of a woman with a child.

A girl in an empty room, a lamp is on, the window is open.

The face of a bearded man, his mouth is open in a silent scream.

People on Nevsky Prospect, passers-by are going down into the underpass.

Animation.

People are walking along the sidewalk of Nevsky Prospect.

Reflection of a boy and other people in the glass of a shop window.

Smiling face of a girl.

People walking along Nevsky Prospect, a man's face overgrown with a beard.

Artist Yevgeny Mikhnov, with his face half painted, performs a pantomime in his studio.

Amateur photography featuring the poet Leonid Aronzon and his wife Rita.

Photos of Aronzon and his wife appear on a white background (combined photography).

Amateur photography featuring Aronzon and his wife during their vacation on the Riga seaside.

Photos of Aronzon and his wife.

Aronzon on vacation (amateur photography), alternates with animation.

A girl reading a letter, a girl's face.

The span of the raised bridge over the Neva.

The moon in the night sky.

View of part of the Field of Mars during the white nights.

Panorama of part of the Neva and the cargo port on a white night.

Fragments of abstract paintings by Yevgeny Mikhnov.

Photograph by Mikhnov.

Views of the streets of St.

Petersburg, the hero of the film is filming the cityscape with an 8-mm movie camera.

A man with a string bag walks down the street, crosses a bridge.

A female janitor sweeps the sidewalk.

Faces of boys and teenagers.

A man and a boy ride bicycles.

Poster for an exhibition of paintings by Yevgeny Mikhnov.

A photograph of Mikhnov at the exhibition.

Amateur photography from 1978: public transport on one of the streets of Leningrad.

People walk past a poster for an exhibition of paintings by Yevgeny Mikhnov.

Exhibition poster.

Entrance to the Dzerzhinsky House of Culture on Poltavskaya Street, where the exhibition is taking place.

Visitors in the exhibition hall.

Mikhnov’s face.

Faces of visitors to the exhibition (panorama).

An orchestra of folk string and wind instruments in the exhibition hall.

Panorama of the exhibition hall.

Paintings on the walls of the hall, panorama of paintings on one of the walls.

Mikhnov talks to one of the guests.

The face of theater figure and artist Boris Ponizovsky.

Ponizovsky talks to the guests.

The face of the poet Aronzon’s wife Rita.

Rita talks to the guests of the exhibition.

The face of a boy named Maxim.

Visitors in the exhibition hall.

A girl lies on a folding bed in a room by the window.

Fragments of paintings.

A girl sits on a folding bed.

An antique secretary in the corner of the room.

Animation, allegories.

The hero of the film discusses the work of the poet Leonid Aronzon.

Letters in the girl's hands.

Fragment of a painting.

A girl, sitting at a table, reads a letter out loud (above).

Amateur filming with the participation of Leonid Aronzon and his wife during their vacation on the seashore.

Sheets of paper and drawings on the table.

Amateur filming with the participation of L. Aronzon and his wife (Aronzon's poems are heard off-screen).

A widow cries over Boris Ponizovsky.

Faces of the participants in the civil funeral service for Boris Ponizovsky.

Participants in the civil funeral service listen to the funeral speech heard off-screen.

A widow at the coffin.

Photographs of Ponizovsky.

The face of a girl.

Faces of the participants in the civil funeral service.

A widow at the coffin.

Ponizovsky in a coffin.

Participants of the civil funeral service, actors of the DaNet theater are sitting in a room by the window.

A widow by the coffin.

Amateur filming with Boris Ponizovsky during a vacation on the seashore, drinking milk from a triangular package.

A girl is watching an amateur newsreel, flickering reflections of a film projector.

Amateur newsreel: Ponizovsky on vacation drinks milk from a triangular package, spills it on himself.

Ponizovsky's face.

Ponizovsky with a camera in his hand.

The appearance of male and female faces (animation).

Photographs by the artist Egor.

Photographs and letters.

Photographs of Egor and his bride before the wedding.

Photographs of Egor and his drawings.

A graphic self-portrait of Egor.

A city sketch.

Photographs of the monastery in Pereyaslavl.

Photographs of Egor and his wife.

A photograph of Egor's grave.

The face of a girl.

A panoramic view of one of the Leningrad courtyards, piles of garbage, gates of carriage houses, cars in the parking lot.

A man sits on a wooden box near a boarded-up kiosk.

The hero of the film sits on an overturned box.

A perspective view of a littered dead end.

Views of abandoned old warehouse buildings, a cobblestone street, passing cars.

Old buildings, garbage under the walls, the hero of the film walks past the buildings.

Hair cutting, the face of a girl hairdresser, the face of the hero of the film in the mirror of the hairdresser's during a haircut.

A hairdresser trims a client's beard.

Cut hair on the floor.

The client's face after a haircut and shave.

A perspective view of a street in a provincial town, two-story houses, garbage on the asphalt, a woman with a dog walking down the street, a young man walking down the street.

The face of a girl hairdresser.

A girl reading letters out loud (synchronously), the girl's face.

Animation.

Photographs of the beggars of Chisinau.

Fragments of a film about the poor of Chisinau in the early 1990s, the everyday life of the poor.

One of the characters in the film writes by the light of a table lamp, sitting at a table.

Three young people push a cart with things through the back streets of courtyards.

A photograph of an armless disabled person smoking a cigarette.

A photograph of a teenager with a plate in his hands.

The hero of the film writes, sitting at a table (image on film frames, combined shooting, animation).

Color scale on film.

The face of a girl on film frames.

The face of a girl.

A baby in his father's arms.

Friends of Leonid Aronzon's widow Rita in a room during her birthday celebration.

The interior of one of the rooms in the apartment, a guitar on the sofa, sheets of paper with manuscripts of poems on the walls.

A photograph of Rita.

Guests in the apartment, the faces of the guests.

Performance of a vocal ensemble accompanied by ancient wind and string instruments.

People in the apartment, Rita's portrait on the wall, musicians playing.

Faces of guests chatting (panorama).

Guests in an apartment.

A mother with a baby in her arms reads poems hung on the walls of the apartment.

The face of a young mother running her finger along the lines.

A photograph of a woman lying in bed.

A woman is sitting at a table in a room.

The face of the film's hero sitting on a bench with a loaf of bread in his hand.

Pigeons are pecking crumbs on the asphalt.

The hero of the film throws crumbs of bread to the pigeons.

A photograph of people near a wooden house in the 1920s.

A man at the table is reading a prayer before eating, a man and an elderly woman are starting to eat, eating.

An elderly woman is sitting on a sofa in a room.

Faces of people in a photograph.

The face of an elderly woman, facial expressions, a portrait on the wall, the frame is covered with snow (animation, combined shooting).

Newsreel on the screen: gravestones in a Jewish cemetery.

Seagulls are flying under the bridge over the Neva.

Landscapes of the Neva and St.

Petersburg at sunset.

A girl reads poetry out loud, sitting at a table with a burning table lamp (synchronously, from above).

A hand turns the pages of a book with illustrations and poems.

Photo illustrations in a book, a girl's face.

A girl reads poetry out loud (synchronously).

The sky in clouds at sunset.