We Are The Clowns

In Leningrad, at the end of the White Nights, young and childishly naive Nina meets a young journalist Valery. She falls in love with that genuine first love, which is only possible when you're 19 years old. She does not suspect that for such an ambitious aesthetic as Valerik, this is just another episode in an endless celebration of life. The leitmotif of the film, which became a cultural landmark for several generations of people born in Leningrad - St. Petersburg, is the natural scenery of the beautiful city on the Neva river at the beginning of the sixties.

The story of worker Yevgeni Moryakov, told by himself and supplemented with lyrical digressions and the author’s commentary.

The film is based on excerpts from the works of the great Russian thinker Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The consultants are Doctor of Philology B.I.Bursov, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR V.M.Glinka.

The film tells about a simple Soviet school and its problems.

The film is about Bulat Okudzhava.

“Communalka” tells the story of people living in a communal flat in Saint Petersburg, whose characters and destinies have been shaped by shared living.