Feels like a sixties film. Student Oleg Vladimirsky negotiates life around him in typical teenage fashion, and especially experiences conflict with his highly-strung mother Zinaida Sharko (never more evident than when she refuses to accept her seat at the concert has been taken). He has dreams of leaving her for his deserter father who is a college lecturer some way away.
Has jumpy editing, bizarre touches, Antoine Doinel-type monologues and some very long takes. The closing concert's song - 'But it is storm the rebel asks for, As though in storms were peace' - that neatly summarizes the boy's state.
Gennardi Karyuk's photography looks cropped in my 4x3 version. The film was shelved until 1987. It was written by Natalya Ryazantseva. Rather good, and not typically Russian, if you know what I mean.
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