Experiments. Notes of a Provincial (1986)

Men playing lotto.

Faces of the players, a hand arranging barrels on a card.

One of the players calls out numbers.

Doctors walking along the hospital corridor.

A doctor washes his hands, the reflection of the doctor's face in the mirror above the sink, off-screen discussions about the problems of improving doctors.

The doctor's face hidden by a medical mask.

A doctor repairs medical equipment.

The doctor takes off the mask, view from the office window.

An equipment adjuster talks about improving in the profession, about the problems of restoring broken equipment (synchronously and off-screen).

Tools in the workshop.

A man casts a fishing rod.

A fisherman with a fishing rod on the bridge.

The fishermen sail away in a boat.

Branches of a gooseberry bush, off-screen discussions about the detrimental impact of civilization on the planet.

A spider rolls its victim into the threads of its web.

An insect wrapped in a cocoon by a spider, a spider in a web.

A man in the vegetable garden.

Trees in the garden, the sun shines through the branches of a tree.

A man lies on the grass in the garden and looks at the sky, takes out a pocket watch.

The watch is on the palm of his hand.

The man brings the watch to his ear, listens to it.

A passenger dances near a train carriage.

A lotus card with chips.

The last carriage of a departing train, a late passenger runs along the platform.

A man sits on the railing of a dead-end station.

Members of the veterans' choir perform a song.

People on a city street, there are discussions about women and their qualities in the background.

A man approaches the gate of a house in the private sector, takes a watch out of his pocket.

A pocket watch is on the palm of his hand, the man opens the gate.

A man comes out of the gate of a two-story wooden residential building, a woman throws him his hat from the window.

A tulle curtain on an open window.

A man examines a glass near a soda machine.

A fist hits the machine, an attempt to return the money by pressing a button.

A lotto card with chips.

A brass band plays, faces and hands of musicians.

A man listening to a brass band.

A record on a turntable.

A basket of apples by the window.

A man eating an apple, a cat on the man's lap, and off-screen conversations about human pleasures.

A record is spinning, a rosehip branch in a vase on the windowsill.

A man riding a bicycle along a village street.

People at the market in the town of Borovichi.

Vegetables on the counter.

Sellers serving customers.

A summer rural landscape, a cyclist riding along the road, and off-screen conversations about agriculture and ecology.

A cyclist riding out onto the ferry bridge.

People pulling the ferry rope during the crossing of a river.

A ferry on the river.

A man with a bicycle standing on the ferry pier, a panorama of a part of the river.

An elderly man in a cape pulling a two-wheeled cart.

Local resident Zhelyabuzhsky stands by the fence and takes a loaf of bread out of his bag.

Zhelyabuzhsky's face, his monologue is heard off-screen.

Medicines, tools, wooden spoons on the windowsill.

Part of the mechanism of a striking clock.

Zhelyabuzhsky is repairing a clock, photographs of Zhelyabuzhsky's ancestors in a frame on the wall.

Clock mechanisms on the table.

The clock on the wall is striking the time.

Zhelyabuzhsky and his friend are repairing clock mechanisms.

A working clock mechanism.

The pendulum is swinging.

Medical equipment adjuster Kozyrev discusses the concept of friendship and friends (synchronously and off-screen).

An artist is painting an autumn landscape in sketches, off-screen discussions are heard about the importance of fine art and artists in our lives.

An artist at a sketchbook on the bank of a stream, a panoramic view of the area.

A man is standing at a table and slicing an apple.

A view from the window, a woman with a yoke is walking along the road.

The artist's face in profile, paintings on the wall.

A girl on an open stage in the rain announces the performance of Moscow actor Nikita Prozorovsky.

Prozorovsky performs the song "Gorodok" with a guitar (synchronously and off-screen).

The only one in the audience is Kozyrev, sitting with an open umbrella on a bench in front of the stage.

Panorama of two-story wooden houses, view of the street, men walking down the street under an umbrella.

Kozyrev with Prozorovsky in the yard of the house.

A cat runs out of the house down the stairs.

Kozyrev demonstrates a trained cat to Prozorovsky and acrobatic exercises in the doorway.

Kozyrev examines nature.

A woman hangs out laundry.

Kozyrev comes out of the greenhouse.

Prozorovsky tries a tomato.

Kozyrev talks about the pleasure of his garden (synchronously).

Kozyrev repairs a brick stove.

Kozyrev with Prozorovsky in the yard of the house, the face of a guest.

Kozyrev arranges paintings at the entrance to the house.

Prozorovsky examines Kozyrev's paintings.

A cat on the porch.

Kozyrev demonstrates to Prozorovsky the strength of the plaster by hitting a brick on the wall, the brick falls apart into pieces.

Prozorovsky dozes, leaning against the wall of the house.

The pendulum of a grandfather clock.

Kozyrev, sitting by the samovar, talks about Galileo and moral torture (synchronously and off-screen).

The faces of Kozyrev's guests.

Kozyrev gets up from the table.

Prozorovsky picks up the guitar.

Kozyrev brings out a cake with candles to the guests, puts it on the table.

Kozyrev blows out the candles.

Prozorovsky performs a song with a guitar (synchronously), the guests listen to the song.

The hatch under the cellar opens.

The wind ruffles the pages of the books lying on the table.