Andrei Bitov

Russian writer Andrey Bitov and Georgian artist Rezo Gabriadze talk about Pushkin. The picture is made in the synthetic genre of animadoc — at the junction of documentary films and artistic animation.

In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…

The relationships of the characters depicted in the film appear as part of the life of the country. At the same time, the social world is shown from an intimate point of view. The techniques of both fiction and documentary films, as well as television and amateur chronicles were used. The film was played by non-professional actors.

Genka stole a car to go for a ride with friends, and he was immediately taken to the police. The car's owner, a famous motorcycle racer, understood the boy's passion…

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.

On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the doctor's ex-girlfriend is also there, and she is expecting a child.