- In The Little Fish in Love a city is seen as open, accessible, multiethnic and free to travel around. This depiction of space alters a stereotypic image of a Socialist city that prevailed in the Soviet film making industry – a city centripetal and unexposed to outer impacts. In the film by Karpykov the city becomes exp…
- Russia, the Urals, the Civil War. The country is split, it is unclear who is behind the Reds, who - for whites. There is no right or guilty. Healthy, adult, beautiful men gladly fight each other to give wicked joy of blood and death. And the worst thing that they all speak the same language. People are scared and confu…
- Moscow, summer of 1953. Tanya, an eleven-year old girl, meets a boy, Mitya. Mitya and his family have just returned from exile in the Russian Far East. Tanya learns that Mitya had to leave behind his best friend, a dog called Hector. Mitya is eager for Hector to join him in Moscow, but the adults declare it impossible …