Chifir for a genius (2002)

Academician V. I. Petrik puts on his coat in the cloakroom. V. I. Petrik and his escort walk to the entrance to the territory of pretrial detention facility #6 in the village of Goreloye.

A lock on the gate and a panorama of part of the fence of the correctional facility, Petrik’s interview is heard off-screen.

Petrik walks along the fence.

Prisoners behind the fence near one of the buildings.

Petrik, accompanied by an employee of the correctional facility where he served his sentence, enters the territory as a visitor.

The door of one of the brick barracks.

Petrik in the barracks tells the prisoners about his stay in the colony (synchronously and off-screen), the faces of the prisoners.

Petrik walks along the open barred corridor of the colony.

A view of part of the territory of the colony, yellow dandelions breaking through the ground, a view of part of the perimeter fence and a guard tower.

Petrik walks to the barracks, shows a place for walks.

Petrik examines the prisoners' exercise area.

Petrik inside the punishment cell.

Petrik talks about the local section of the residential area where he served his sentence (synchronously).

Petrik walks along the fenced-off path.

View of part of the local area fence.

Interview with the former head of the pretrial detention center V.I. Mitsek about Petrik's stay there (synchronously and off-camera), Petrik stands nearby.

View and panorama of the old prison building.

The gate leading to the local area closes.

Green trees, Petrik's wife paints a still life.

Petrik comes down the porch of the house.

Petrik's interview about synergetics (synchronously and off-camera), foliage on the trees.

Panorama of a brick wall, brickwork.

Petrik walks to the gate of the dacha.

Petrik demonstrates an experiment, burning sorbent in a bucket, an increase in the sorbent's volume.

Petrik, sprinkled with a water purification sorbent, gives an interview about water purification (synchronously and off-screen).

Sorbent crumbling and flying through the air.

Petrik gives an interview standing by a pile of burning sorbent in the forest (synchronously).

Dandelions in a clearing.

Demonstration of an experiment in filtering water through a sorbent obtained by Petrik, the filtered clean water is poured into a glass vessel.

Pine trunks.

Petrik in a violin workshop, violins on the walls.

A disassembled Stradivarius violin, Petrik talks about the violin (synchronously and off-screen).

A photograph of Petrik with a violin during his time in prison.

Violin parts.

Petrik strings the violin, tunes it.

View of a part of the violin.

Petrik demonstrates a diamond knife, talks about his occupation as a stone carving (synchronously and off-screen), miniatures of Petrik, carved on various natural stones.

Petrik talks about "grown" stones (synchronously and off-screen), Yeltsin's portrait on a stone.

Petrik's interview about his inner feelings after his release and nutrition in prison (synchronously).

Petrik paints a mountain landscape from memory in nature, talks about it (synchronously and off-screen).

Petrik's face.

Panorama of Petrik's dacha.

Dandelions in the meadow.

Petrik drives up to the gate on an ATV, stops, gets off and goes through the gate.

Petrik and his assistant conduct an experiment at the dacha to create a hydrogen engine, demonstrate photographs of fuel carbon nanotubes, his interview about nanotubes is played off-screen.

Petrik demonstrates an image of nanotubes.

Petrik's photographs among domestic and foreign scientists.

Petrik's experiments with osmium-187 and downy carbon, demonstration and progress of the experiments.

The Spanish scientist thanks Petrik and hugs him.

A painting on the wall, Chinese porcelain figurines on the shelf.

Petrik gives an interview sitting at the piano (synchronously and off-screen).

Petrik plays the flute, talks about music (synchronously).

A photo of Petrik's son on the table, patents for Petrik's inventions (panorama).

Petrik talks about life in the "zone" (synchronously).

Petrik sits on a stump in the forest during an interview, a man nearby brews chifir over a fire.

Petrik's face.

The process of brewing chifir.

Petrik drinks chifir from a coffee cup, continues his reasoning (synchronously and off-screen), panorama of a meadow with dandelions.

Chifir on the fire.

Petrik walks along the territory of the dacha.