The Secret of Wine Making

A young artist named Victor arrives in the village to decorate the local club for the New Year. The club owner, Mishka, takes his guest to the house where he will be staying. Victor and the owner's daughter, Tatyana, develop feelings for each other, which Mishka, who is madly in love with the girl, senses.

The story of a young man, his search for the meaning of life.

Based on the Valentin Pikul's novel "Bayazet".

About the incompleteness and insufficiency of the simplest senses: touch, sight, hearing. In cinema, this view traditionally denotes a collision between the authentic and the illusory. Truths and imaginary things are given in the film as images of feelings. “I love to forget time with you,” the heroine says to her blind lover and adds, "You are the most sighted of all the sighted."

A poetic essay on the city of St. Petersburg in the 18th century, based on poems by Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Blok and a novel by Andrey Belyi. The film contains reworked footage from Aleksey Batalov's "Overcoat", Eisenstein´s "Strike", Petrov's "Peter The First", Tikhomirov's "The Queen Of Spades" and others. Petersburg is an unbounded visual fantasy where reality and imagination merge into one. The history of the city represented in a digital form may live its independent life. Yevteyeva presents sights of St.Petersburg that have become the genetic code of the Russian culture in a particular manner in her film. Each shot of the film was hand-painted with special strokes.

When Andrey saved Vera from drowning, she fell in love with him, but he saw her as a sister. Years later, Vera reunites with Andrey but hides her feelings. But when an old rival threatens her, Andrey discovers that he is still a knight in shining armor.