Director of Photography
The film is about the director’s mother, the movie actress Nina Antonova. Now she is 80. She has had hundreds of roles – big and small. It is a personal story about an honest and sad life, about self-sacrifice and freedom. Real fame as an actress came to her only once in her life. It was the leading role in the first Soviet colour TV series Varka’s Land. That was 45 years ago…
Camera Operator
An aging composer, caressed by fame, realizes that his finest hour has passed. And in his troubles, the creator blames first of all his wife Elena. To return the capricious muse, Eugene brings a young mistress, a student of the conservatory, into the house. And the wife has to put up with the fact that from now on she will live under the same roof with the "doves."
Director of Photography
The subjective-personal context is perceived as an objective document of the era, a true testimony of the time when it was created and experienced. The author reflects on events of different historical scale, but equally significant for a person. The film is built on the principle of montage of free associations: from memories of the grandmother and reflections on "the time of our grandmothers" to the image of Vira Kholodnaya as the embodiment of femininity, and then - at a sharp turn - to the problems of inter-ethnic conflicts.
