Elah-palah or Mitki in Europe (1990)

Dmitry Shagin.

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

Mitki talks about his trip to Europe.

The bus with the inscription on board "Ely-Paly" is going to Europe.

Mitki sleep on the seats of the bus, drink beer, communicate to the songs of B. Grebenshchikov.

Dmitry Shagin tells the story of his life and reads the poems of M. Lermontov "Goodbye unwashed Russia".

Exhibition of Mitkov in Europe.

Mitki paints the bus on which they travel, at the Cologne Cathedral.

Viktor Tikhomirov.

Mitek Viktor Tikhomirov comes out on the roof of his house, looks down at St.

Petersburg and talks about life, St.

Petersburg, emigration.

Views of St.

Petersburg: Neva embankment, everyday life of people, house-well.

V. Tikhomirov is driving a car on a broken winter road to the village and talks about emigration.

The information program of the Netherlands television tells about the journey of Mitkov in the Netherlands.

Mitki are preparing their exhibition, arranging and hanging paintings.

Mitki on the streets of Amsterdam.

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

Mitki pose on the square in front of the Pompidou center and jokingly beg in French.

Mitki drink beer at the Munich Beer Festival in Bavaria.

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

Vladimir Shinkarev and Mitki in Paris.

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

Gloomy winter St.

Petersburg. V.Shinkarev is working on a painting and talks about the philosophy of Mitkov.

Mitki at the foot of the Eiffel Tower are talking to a guide; walking around Paris and bathing in a fountain, drinking wine from an aluminum mug, lying in fountains at the Louvre, fooling around on the Palais Royal Square, looking at porn magazines, riding a bus and singing songs.

D. Shagin represents the bus driver and the Mitkov group by name.

D. Shagin comes home and puts the 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 paintings by D. Shagin on the walls of the room.

Mitki walk in the park "Mini-Europe" in Brussels; ride on carousels, visit the Wax Museum, measure clothes in shopping malls.

Mitki drinks at the Baron's reception.

Guests circle the figure of Shagin around the office and paint with paints.

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

Mitki, with bags full of books and things, board the steamer.

Olga Floranskaya talks about Mitkov's philosophical view of the world and life.

Mitki ride on a steamboat in Amsterdam.

Paintings by Mitkov.

Winter St.

Petersburg.

In the autumn forest Mitki make a barbecue and relax.