The third rite (2002)

Road through a field.

A man is walking along the road.

A field, modest wild flowers in the foreground.

Time-lapse photography of clouds.

Shots along a dug trench, piles of stones nearby.

An archaeologist is excavating.

A funeral service for a deceased person.

Fog in the mountains.

Time-lapse photography of fog among the mountains.

A road among the mountains leads to the city.

A coffin with the body of a deceased person is being transported in a bus.

A menhir in the steppe.

Inscriptions on a stone.

The coffin is taken out of the bus.

Alternating shots of coffins being taken out of cars and buses.

The coffin is taken on a cart to the morgue.

A coffin with a tag lies on the cart.

Various cemeteries.

People gather to say goodbye to the deceased.

Farewell.

A tape recorder is playing suitable music in a room nearby.

The reels of the tape recorder are spinning.

An empty cellophane bag takes off and flies on the territory of a crematorium.

A break in the tape recorder.

After the farewell, the coffin is closed and sent for cremation.

The sun sets behind the horizon.

Sunrise, with a dry tree in the foreground.

Sunrise.

Image on a stone.

Drawings of primitive people on the walls of caves and stones on the river bank.

Reflection in the water of a horseman riding along the bank.

Alternation of shots with nature and drawings on stones.

Reflection of a dry tree in the water.

The stream washes away the image.

A river, stone ruins on the bank.

Archaeological excavations.

An archaeologist sorts out bones in a burial ground.

Cleans them and photographs.

A burial mound in a field.

General view of the burial ground.

Alternation of shots with artifacts from the burial grounds.

Grass in the steppe, through which stone steles installed by man are visible.

An archaeologist at an excavation cleans the bones of a person buried there.

An archaeologist sketches the excavated burial.

Image of an ancient burial.

Museum reconstruction of a burial.

A similar burial in the steppe.

Stones on ancient graves.

Clouds float past these stones.

Sunrise.

A bird of prey circles over the steppe.

The frame with the bird is replaced by a frame with an airplane.

Orthodox cemetery.

People go to the cemetery on the day of remembrance of the dead.

Trinity Parents' Saturday.

People tidy up the graves of their loved ones.

A woman sits near a grave and reminisces.

A raven sits on a stone in the steppe.

A man walks across a field.

A stone on a burial mound.

Time-lapse photography of clouds.