Synopsis

Poet was born in a small town. He grows up and doesn’t know what to do with his big feelings. And he decides – to go to the big city, there all are big and great – discoveries, people, feelings. He gets in Moscow, big world, but can’t be happy there. The era of great upheavals, wars and revolutions comes. The great passions storm in this world, but there’s no place for great love.

Svetlana Filippova

Svetlana Filippova (1968, Alma-Ata) graduated in philology in 1991 from the Kazakh State University. In 1997 she has graduated from School-Studio SHAR and the High Course for scriptwriters and film directors as animation film director (workshops by Fedor Khitruk, Yuri Norstein, Eduard Nazarov and Andrey Khrzhanovsky). She lives in Moscow and makes animation films and book illustrations.