Retrospective 2017

Čelovek idet za solncem

Der Sonne entgegen
Michail Kalik
Udssr 1961
71 min
V'17

It looks almost like telepathy, so close is the kinship to the French Nouvelle Vague: filming on the streets, the desire to experiment, the game with the norms. As a first degree cousin of "Zazie in the Metro", a small boy is walking through a city (shot in Kishinev, Moldova) after the sun. Through his "naive" eyes one observes the bizarre hustle and bustle of adults: during flirting, in front of a birth clinic, at a funeral or when discussing football. And nowhere is a Lenin monument in sight: the city as a de-ideological space.​

With an introduction by Christoph Huber

Credits
  • Evgenij Evstigneev
  • Niku Krimnus
  • Lev Kruglyj
  • Valentin Zubkov
35 mm
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