Obvodny canal (1990)

St.

Petersburg, view of the wall of a residential building, panorama of the courtyard-well.

The camera follows the poet Viktor Krivulin, who walks through the courtyards.

Krivulin enters the gateway, a view of the wall of the house, the yard - it's raining.

The general plan is a man in a passing yard.

Krivulin looks out the open window, into the apartment.

Night, human figures on the water in different poses.

Large - a boy with a candle in his hands, a little girl approaches him, lights her candle, adults appear next to the children.

Night, a large group of people is walking in the dark.

River, bridges (removed from water, from traffic).

Psychiatrists in the office talking to the patient.

The patient talks about himself, the doctors ask him to sing, the patient sings.

Large - window, part of the street is reflected in the glass.

Pub, Krivulin is standing at a table, drinking beer.

The bartender behind the counter, pours beer into mugs.

Different plans with the visitors of the pub - they drink beer, have a snack, fight, etc.

St.

Petersburg, beer hall, visitors are standing at tables, drinking beer, eating fish.

The cleaner removes empty beer mugs.

A fight in a pub - an employee separates tipsy men.

Panorama of a crane with a hook.

A workshop, a man with a beard is working, making some paper blanks.

People are sitting at tables, hammering nails with wooden hammers.

A large - sized tray with the names of patients, a hand moves the bowls with pills.

Psychiatric hospital patients are sitting at a long dining table.

Large - the patient's face.

Hospital staff in white coats, a man combing his hair.

Large - the employee of the dining room distributes spoons.

Employees near the distribution window.

Large - a dish with sliced bread, patients take turns taking bread.

An employee opens the cabinet doors, turns on a color TV, a panorama of patients eating at the table.

View from the window to the street, the courtyard of the hospital, walking patients.

Patients walk in the yard under the supervision of the staff, a panorama of trees, houses, an Orthodox church.

Panorama of an old abandoned temple (filmed inside).

Bypass canal, embankment (removed from the water, from traffic).

A room-hall, an accompanist playing the piano, psychiatric hospital patients singing "Moscow evenings", in the frame - a man with a beard holding a guitar.

A psychiatrist in a white coat is standing in the aisle, a patient is sitting next to him.

The patient is sitting at the window in the ward.

Panorama of the ward - patients are sitting on beds, lying down.

Patients in the hall - listening, singing "Moscow evenings".

The male patient is sitting next to the woman, the two of them are singing, the man puts his hand on her shoulder, the woman drops her hand.

Panorama of the window - the street is reflected in the glass.

Apartment, a man opens a bottle of champagne.

People enter the apartment on the ground floor through the window.

There is a group of people in the room, children.

Adults communicate, tell something, laugh.

The St.

Petersburg courtyard is a well, teenagers are standing around the perimeter, military training classes are going on, the military instructor gives different commands.

Large - the face of a teenager, he executes commands, laughs.

The camera shows the faces of teenagers who carry out the commands of the military instructor.

The general plan - teenagers stand around the perimeter, execute commands, a panorama of the courtyard, windows, walls of houses.

A passing yard - a group of teenagers under the leadership of a military instructor marches, goes through the gateway, enters the back door.

The poet Viktor Krivulin enters the front door, climbs the stairs (seen through the reflection in the mirror).

Panorama of a large portrait of Lenin in the hall, chandelier, stucco on the ceiling.

A group of different twins is singing in the hall.

Panorama of the twin women standing in a row, in the center of the hall are the twin men - holding a large sheet of paper.

A panorama of a stand with photos of the leading men, a hall in which pairs of twins walk in a circle - men, women, children.

Pairs of twins are singing.

In the frame - elderly twin women in Russian folk costumes with kokoshniks - dancing.

Pairs of twins in the hall are moving in a round dance (in a circle).

In the middle of the hall - dancing twins, men and women, in Russian folk costumes.

A room in the house of the writer Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky - the writer himself is present, as well as M. V. Rozanova, editor of the Syntax magazine.

The private house of the writer Sinyavsky near Paris.

There is a printing press in the room, sheets with drawings are printed.

There is a group of people standing around the machine, taking printed sheets, examining them.

In the frame is the writer Sinyavsky, smoking.

The woman takes the printed sheets, puts them in a stack.

Sinyavsky examines the drawings, laughs.

A man is standing nearby, commenting on the drawings.

The performance "mitkov" is a bathroom in the house, a man in a vest is sitting in a Jacuzzi, holding a shower handle in his hands, fooling around, talking on it like on the phone.

Nearby, another man is washing socks in a bidet.

Panorama of the bathroom - men in vests stand near the sinks, wash, brush their teeth, wash their feet, etc.

Saint Petersburg, the poet Viktor Krivulin walks along the square near the Sea Station towards the embankment, a white motor ship can be seen in the distance.

A white passenger ship is sailing into the sea.

Bypass Canal (removed from the water, from traffic) - view of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ.

The camera shows traffic on the canal, passage under the bridge, a view of a barge and a small boat on the water.

The poet Alexander Gornon recites poems on the embankment.

A diver is put on a diving suit, a spacesuit.

Gornon in a diving suit plunges into the water, continues to recite poetry.

Psychiatric hospital, view through the stairwell - patients descend the stairs, exit the building to the street.

The camera follows the medical staff, the sick.

The door opens, patients are allowed into the inner garden at the hospital.

Large - the door is locked with a key.

Panorama of the garden, verandas, walking patients.

The patient runs in a circle.

The writer Sinyavsky is in the garden of his house, walking, smoking.

Patients in the hospital, in the common recreation room - a guitar is playing, a girl sings the song "Waltz-Boston", patients dance in pairs.

Different shots with patients - a man in a crown sitting in a corner, a woman eating.

The girl sings, after the end of the song, the people sitting next to her begin to applaud.

The patient - a man with a beard - recites poetry.

A girl in a fashionable white raincoat, wearing a cap, with a long tail leaves the camera and walks along the embankment, along the Bypass Canal.