Felix Yakubson

The film was edited from the materials of the diary filming in Grozny from May 5 to May 13, 1995. This is an attempt to record the condition of civilians who unexpectedly became witnesses and victims of a large-scale political conflict.

Follows the origin of geometry in Ancient Greece, about the contribution to the development of science made by Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Eudoxus.

In St. Petersburg, in a house near the Neva, a father and son live. The father does not let go of the video camera. With her help, he keeps his "diaries", taking pictures at home and away, on the streets of the city and while traveling. Among the protagonists of his film are random passers-by, lonely old people, St. Petersburg bohemia, young people, friends and acquaintances of his son, former prisoners of the Mordovian camps. One day, not finding answers to important questions, the father decides to go to Jerusalem. For some time he and his son travel together, then part. In the life of the father, meanwhile, a serious change is coming.

Follows the theory of painting and its components.

The main character is a masked hero, akin to the great comedians of the 20th century, created by the Leningrad mime N.S. Nikitin.

Documentary about the events of self-coup by president Boris Yeltsin in September and October of 1993 which led to military attack on parliament building and deaths of civilians in street fights. Fim is based on raw and uncut material shot by crew from St. Petersburg, who originally came to Moscow to cover concert by cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.