Lullaby (2002)

An elderly woman sits by a swinging baby cradle suspended from the ceiling, the woman's hands sorting through wool, a wardrobe door with a mirror opens.

The face of a young man standing in the doorway.

A man with a backpack on his back walks through the forest, the sun's rays break through the trees.

The man's face.

A man walks towards a forest guardhouse.

A man walks through a meadow and tall grass.

View of a village house.

A man makes his way through the thickets of grass and bushes to the house, tasting berries on the go.

A man walks along a fence.

A cat lies on the windowsill by the open window.

A man in the house looks at photographs in a frame hanging on the wall and the furnishings of the room.

Photographs on the walls, room interiors.

An elderly housewife talks about the house, her life and her family, pointing to the photographs hanging on the wall.

An icon on the wall.

A young man approaches the window.

A man lifts a haystack on a pitchfork, stacks the hay in a stack.

A young man and the housewife look at photographs.

A young man sits by the window and looks out onto the street, leaning his elbows on the windowsill.

A boy runs out of the outbuilding of the house and runs into the house.

The boy's mother is standing in the doorway.

The boy is sitting on the grass and looking at pictures in a book.

The woman is on the porch, the boy is running around the yard.

A young man and the elderly mistress of the house are sitting at a table by the window.

Men are stacking hay in a haystack.

View from the window of a village house.

A young man is walking along a slanted fence towards the house.

A young man enters an abandoned house and looks around.

A young man is examining a room in an abandoned house, sorting through abandoned things, old school diaries and notebooks.

A young man opens the lid of an old gramophone and puts on a record.

The gramophone record is spinning, the young man is listening to music.

Residents of the village of Strunino with small children are sitting at a table by a haystack.

The face of a young man.

A woman is climbing the internal wooden stairs.

A woman is walking into a room, looking for her hidden son.

A boy crawls out from under the bed and runs away.

Children are playing in the entryway of a house.

A blindfolded boy walks along the edge of the forest.

A mother runs after the boy across a meadow.

A young man squats by the window, twirling a ball of wool in his hands.

Old newspapers on the floor, a young man lies on the bed.

A baby cradle on a tree branch in the forest.

A woman takes a boy into the forest thicket.

A swing in the forest.

A woman leads a boy by the hand through the forest.

Trees in a mixed forest, a woman with a boy by a tree (panorama).

An elderly man sits by the window.

A woman and a boy in the house.

A woman runs through a village.

A blindfolded boy walks across a forest clearing.

A morning rural landscape, men carry armfuls of hay on their backs.

A young man circles along the edge of the forest, his arms outstretched in front of him.

A village house at sunset.

A man leaves the house, goes down the broken steps of the porch.

A man washes himself from the footbridge by the river bank.

Summer rural landscape, a cat near a tree trunk.

A young man walks along the edge of the forest, approaches a log bathhouse, kneels in front of the window.

A mother washes her son in the bathhouse.

The face of a young man outside the bathhouse window.

Women feed sheep by hand in the yard in the evening.

A boy sleeps in the hay near a woodpile.

Panorama of a fence and a slate roof of a barn, a summer rural landscape, a young man lies in the grass on the bank of a stream.

Reflection of a house in the water.

A woman with a boy in an open window of a house.

Procession along a village street along a fence, a man walking in front carries a scarecrow.

A two-story wooden house, private processions with a scarecrow pass by.

Ceremonial burning of the scarecrow on the bank of a stream.

The remains of the burning scarecrow are thrown into the water.

Women outside the window of a village house.

A man on the street by the window of a house.

A man outside the window, there is a playing gramophone nearby, it is raining.

People outside the window are dancing to the gramophone.

Residents of the village of Strunino are sitting at a table near a haystack, a young man gets up from the table, a woman sits down in his place.

A man walks past a house through thickets of grass.

A man is in the house.

A woman is reflected in a cloudy mirror, sitting by the window.

A man looks out of the window, closes the window.

A man walks across a meadow towards the forest, takes off his backpack, falls into the grass.

A man lies on the grass.

A boy slides down a slope towards a stream (black and white high-contrast photography).

Panorama of thickets of sedge and a stream, a man is sitting on the bank of the stream.

A man is standing on a log thrown across the stream, crosses to the other bank.

A man walks into the distance across a meadow.