Yoly-paly or Mitki in Europe (1990)

Dmitry Shagin.

Interview with the Mitki - a group of artists, at a film studio in Moscow, decorated with empty picture frames.

The Mitki talk about their trip around Europe.

A bus with the inscription "Yely-Pala" on its side goes to Europe.

The Mitki sleep on the seats of the bus, drink beer, and chat to the songs of B. Grebenshchikov.

Dmitry Shagin tells the story of his life and reads the poems of M. Lermontov "Farewell, Unwashed Russia".

An exhibition of the Mitki in Europe.

The Mitki paint the bus they are traveling on, near the Cologne Cathedral.

Viktor Tikhomirov.

Mitek Viktor Tikhomirov goes out onto the roof of his house, looks down on St.

Petersburg and talks about life, St.

Petersburg, emigration.

Views of St.

Petersburg: the Neva embankment, everyday life of people, a well-house. V. Tikhomirov drives a car along a broken winter road to the village and talks about emigration.

An information program on Dutch television tells about the Mitki's journey through the Netherlands.

The Mitki are preparing their exhibition, arranging and hanging up paintings.

The Mitki on the streets of Amsterdam.

The Mitki travel by bus to France, where they are met in Paris by the President of the Pompidou Center, O. Bardas.

The Mitki pose on the square in front of the Pompidou Center and jokingly beg for alms in French.

The Mitki drink beer at the Munich Beer Festival in Bavaria.

The Mitki are on a nudist beach among naked people, they take off their clothes and swim naked.

Vladimir Shinkarev and the Mitki in Paris.

Mitek V. Shinkarev, who wrote a book about the Mitki, unloads coal at work in a boiler room, talks and drinks with his partner.

Gloomy winter St.

Petersburg. V. Shinkarev works on a painting and talks about the philosophy of the Mitki.

The Mitki talk to a guide at the foot of the Eiffel Tower; walk around Paris and bathe in a fountain, drink wine from an aluminum mug, lie in the fountains near the Louvre, fool around on the Palais Royal square, look at porn magazines, ride a bus and sing songs. D. Shagin introduces the bus driver and the Mitki group by name.

D. Shagin comes home and puts groceries from the bag on the kitchen table, where the children are sitting. D. Shagin's wife sets the table and the family eats.

Shagin's daughter plays the piano, there are D. Shagin's paintings on the walls of the room.

The Mitki walk in the Mini-Europe park in Brussels; ride the carousel, visit the Wax Museum, try on clothes in shopping centers.

The Mitki drink at a reception at the Baron's.

The guests trace the figure of Shagin around the office and paint it.

Naked Mitki run out of the wall-picture and run to swim in the sea.

Mitki with bags full of books and things board a steamer.

Olga Floranskaya talks about the philosophical view of the Mitki on the world and life.

Mitki ride on a steamer around Amsterdam.

Mitki paintings.

Winter St.

Petersburg.

In the autumn forest, Mitki make shashlik and relax.