Wedding of Silence (2003)

View of torn up paving stones, rain falling.

Child sleeping in crib, child opens eyes, wakened by telephone ringing, tosses and turns, yawns.

Child sits in crib, looks around room, starts crying, falls silent, lies down again, gets up, cries again.

Family at table celebrating boy’s first birthday.

Faces of family members talking to each other at table using sign language.

Family members clink glasses with each other.

Man resting in chair.

Railway coupling connection.

Deaf mother explains to her son using sign language how to put out candle on cake.

Child puts out candle on cake by covering it with spoon.

Smoking chimney of factory boiler room.

Chain in clouds of steam.

Gate valve on boiler room pipeline.

Cobwebs on sections of pipes stacked in a pile.

View of a part of a wall and a window of an old factory building.

The blades of an exhaust fan are rotating.

A hammer is lying on a plank flooring.

A worker is reading a newspaper.

Deaf and dumb workers are playing dominoes during a break.

One of the workers is smoking, watching the game.

Dominoes are in the hands of the players.

The workers are playing dominoes, communicating with each other using the alphabet for the deaf.

The worker takes his mittens at the end of the break.

The sliding gates of the workshop open, an interior view of the workshop.

The workers are discussing a production issue using sign language.

Production processes in the foundry and forge shop of the Baltic Plant, a welder at work.

The work of an automatic hammer, the faces of the workers, production processes.

The workers communicate with each other in sign language during work and a smoke break.

A candle in front of the icon of the Mother of God.

An Orthodox priest communicates with a hearing-impaired parishioner in sign language, hears his confession.

A child in the arms of his mother.

A priest reads the psalter.

A man's face.

A seminarian gives a sermon to deaf-mute parishioners using sign language.

A girl crosses herself.

Faces of parishioners during a church service.

The seminarian continues his sermon in sign language.

Faces of parishioners.

A priest gives a sermon in sign language.

Parishioners cross themselves.

A priest administers communion.

Faces of parishioners receiving communion.

Parishioners congratulate each other on the holiday and kiss each other.

A child in his mother's arms.

The face of Christ under the dome of the church.

People dance silently in the restaurant hall.

Guests pour champagne.

The bride and groom at the wedding table.

The toastmaster conducts the wedding using the alphabet for the deaf, a woman reads the congratulatory text in sign language.

Faces of guests at the wedding table.

The guests applaud.

The guests communicate with each other in sign language.

The newlyweds kiss.

The groom declares his love to the bride in sign language.

Faces of the guests and the newlyweds communicating in sign language.

One of the wedding competitions, faces of the guests.

The newlyweds dance in silence, faces of the guests.

The bride throws the wedding bouquet, the girls catch it.

The newlyweds walk to the exit of the restaurant.

The connection of a wagon coupling (above).

Broken pavement in the rain.

A deaf-mute mother with a child in her arms stands at the window.

View of a part of the territory of the Baltic Shipyard.

Streams of rain in a puddle on the asphalt.

Metal blanks in the rain.

Deaf-mute foundry workers during a break.

Faces of the workers.

A cast church bell, installed on a moving platform, appears from the dark depths of the workshop, images of saints on the surface of the bell.

Faces of the workers, transporting the bell with a crane.

The clapper of the bell swinging in the silence, faces of the workers.

The swinging clapper of the bell, the ringing of the bell is heard.

Transportation of a crane by water past the berths of the Baltic Shipyard.